Pagans and Christians: In the Mediterranean World from the Second Century AD to the Conversion of Constantine by Robin Lane Fox
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Overview: First published in 1986, this is the definitive study of the transition from Greco-Roman paganism to a Christian Empire.
From the second century AD to the conversion of the first Christian emperor, Constantine, Robin Lane Fox’s Pagans and Christians in the Mediterranean World gives a fascinating new perspective on an extraordinary era.
The transition from pagan to Christian in the ancient Mediterranean world was a process whose effects we still live with today. How did this monumental conversion come about? How did Christianity compare and compete with the pagan gods in the Roman Empire?
This scholarly work places Christians and pagans side by side in the context of civic life and contrasts their religious experiences, visions, cults and oracles. Leading up to the time of the first Christian emperor, Constantine, it aims to enlarge and confirm the value of contemporary evidence, some of which has only recently been discovered.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational, History, Religion, Classics, Late Antiquity
"This brilliant book is a wholly unexpected and central contribution to its subject. What is more it is readable and rereadable, even gripping". — The Spectator
"Important and learned". —Financial Times
"A massive and humane study… On my shelf it will rest with pride between Edward Gibbon and Peter Brown". —The Telegraph
"On the one hand a magisterial analysis and reconstruction of an apparently remote and alien society, on the other a detailed study of the single most significant process in our history". —The Times
Robin Lane Fox (b. 1946) is an Emeritus Fellow of New College, Oxford, and Reader in Ancient History, University of Oxford. His other books include The Classical World: An Epic History from Homer to Hadrian, Alexander the Great, and The Unauthorised Version: Truth and Fiction in the Bible. He was historical advisor to Oliver Stone on the making of the film "Alexander."
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