The Procurator of Judea (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Jacques-Anatole-Françoi Thibault
- First Published: 1892
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: 57
- Setting: A hill above Baiae, near Cape Misenum in Italy
- Principal Characters: Aelius Lamia, Pontius Pilate
- Genres: Social realism, Short fiction
- Subjects: Europe or Europeans, Jews or Jewish life, Christianity, Biblical times, Jesus Christ, Italy or Italians, Greek or Roman times, Rome
- Locales: Italy, ancient
The Story
Aelius Lamia, who is sixty-two years of age and afflicted by a discomforting illness, has left Rome to take the waters at Baiae, a seaside resort. One day, having tired of his fellows, he climbs the hill above the town to read De rerum natura (c. 60 b.c.e.; On the Nature of Things, 1682), Lucretius's celebrated treatise on the philosophy of Epicurus. While making way for the passage of a litter bearing a gloomy aristocrat he is astonished and delighted to recognize a man whom he has not seen for twenty years—a man whom he met during an eighteen-year...
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