Exemplum and Sacrifice, Blood Testimony and Written Testimony: Lucretia and Perpetua as Transitional Figures in the Cultural History of Martyrdom.

in: Perpetua's Passions. Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Passio Perpetuae at Felicitatis. Ed. by J.N. Bremmer and M. Formisano. Oxford UP 2012:

The article questions a common thesis of the historiography of martyrdom, i.e. the uniqueness of martyrdom in Christianity and the notion that a selfsacrifice or “dying for a cause” was alien to both the Greek and the Jews. Since in Tertullian’s famous Ad martyres Lucretia is presented as an exemplum of former martyrium to the early Christian martyrs persecuted by the Roman Empire, her case is compared with that of Perpetua.