2015年9月21日 · Re-creates the world from the second to the fourth century AD, when the Graeco-Roman gods lost their dominion and Christianity, with the conversion of Constantine, triumphed in the Mediterranean world.

Some pagans blamed the Christian hegemony for the 410 Sack of Rome, while Christians in turn blamed the pagans, provoking Saint Augustine, a Christian bishop, to respond by writing The City of God, a seminal Christian text. It is alleged that Christians destroyed almost all pagan political literature and threatened to cut off the hands of any ...

PAGANS AND CHRISTIANS Robin Lane Fox is a Fellow of New College, Oxford, and University Reader in Ancient History. His books include Alexander the Great, The Unauthorized Version: Truth and Fiction in the Bible and The Classical World, all of which are published by Penguin. He has also been the weekly gardening correspondent of the Financial

2021年7月21日 · "Religion and the religious life from the second to the fourth century A.D. when the gods of Olympus lost their dominion and Christianity, with the conversion of Constantine, triumphed in the Mediterranean world"--Jacket subtitle