About the Author

Averil Cameron is Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine Studies at the University of London, King's College. Her many publications include Images of Women in Antiquity, edited with Amelie Kuhrt (1983), Procopius and the Sixth Century (California, 1985), and History as Text (1989).

Reviews

"Cameron's lectures. . . are the work of a master hand, and deal with a question to which an apparently increasing number of ancient historians wish to turn, namely the mysterious problem of the spread of Christianity in a society that showed little sign of being sympathetic."--Henry Chadwick, "Times Literary Supplement