Klaus and Travis discuss the role of the devil in the early 3rd-century martyrdom/passion narrative of Perpetua and Felicity.
Sources:
The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity, trans/ed. Thomas J. Heffernan, Oxford University Press
Online version: https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/perpetua.asp
L. Stephanie Cobb, "Suicide by Gladiator? The Acts of Perpetua and Felicitas in its North African Context" Church History' 88:3 (September 2019), 597-628.
Katherine E. Milco,“Mulieres viriliter vincentes: Masculine and Feminine Imagery in Augustine’s Sermons on Sts. Perpetua and Felicity ,” VIGILIAE CHRISTIANAE 69 (2015) 276-295
DAVID E. WILHITE “Perpetua of History in Recent Questions” Journal of Early Christian Studies 25:2, 307–319
Seven Heads, Ten Horns: The History of the Devil