Perpetua’s Journey: Faith, Gender, and Power in the Roman Empire (Graphic History Series)

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Examining issues of power, gender, and religion in the ancient world, Perpetua’s Journey: Faith, Gender, and Power in the Roman Empire is a graphic history set in Roman Africa in 203 CE that tells the story of the Christian martyr Perpetua.

The Passio Sanctarum Perpetuae et Felicitatis, sometimes called The Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity, is the first extant diary authored by a Christian woman. Vibia Perpetua used to be a young mother who lived in Roman Africa and, on the age of twenty-two, chose to publicly proclaim her Christian faith. She died on account of her actions, though she did not die by myself; she used to be a part of a group of Christian martyrs, including several slaves, who were placed in prison and then executed in Carthage all the way through the birthday celebrations of Emperor Septimius Severus’s son in 203 CE. Perpetua’s diary incorporates her account of the days leading up to her martyrdom.

Perpetua’s Journey occupies a space between the many works designed primarily for specialists and advanced scholars, who already know a great deal about Perpetua and the history of the Roman Empire, and lives of saints which might be intended for general readers. Perpetua’s Journey is unique because it combines both sequential art and historical and social observation, and it places Perpetua’s diary in the context of life in Roman North Africa in 203 CE.

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