Abstract
Abstract It is agreed that the speech of Praetextatus in the Saturnalia of Macrobius, written about AD 430, is one of the principal sources for the last stage of Roman paganism, more precisely for the interpretation of their traditional religion by the last generation of pagan senators. Modern interpretations differ in detail. But on essentials something like consensus has been reached: Praetextatus ‘ speech shows that the paganism of the late fourth-century Roman senatorial aristocracy was approaching monotheism. ‘ Praetextatus ‘ view of the gods is much closer to Christianity than the classical paganism we know from the authors of the Latin golden age, in that it involved belief that the world was in fact ruled by a single deity and that the traditional gods were in reality aspects of the one god.
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