Imperial Pagan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Imperial Pagan write by Paul Strachan. This book was released on 1990-01-01. Imperial Pagan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This work aims to revive interest in the least-examined monumental Buddhist site in Southeast Asia.
Pagan Holiday
Pagan Holiday - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pagan Holiday write by Tony Perrottet. This book was released on 2009-05-06. Pagan Holiday available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The ancient Romans were responsible for many remarkable achievements—Roman numerals, straight roads—but one of their lesser-known contributions was the creation of the tourist industry. The first people in history to enjoy safe and easy travel, Romans embarked on the original Grand Tour, journeying from the lost city of Troy to the Acropolis, from the Colossus at Rhodes to Egypt, for the obligatory Nile cruise to the very edge of the empire. And, as Tony Perrottet discovers, the popularity of this route has only increased with time. Intrigued by the possibility of re-creating the tour, Perrottet, accompanied by his pregnant girlfriend, sets off to discover life as an ancient Roman. The result is this lively blend of fascinating historical anecdotes and hilarious personal encounters, interspersed with irreverent and often eerily prescient quotes from the ancients—a vivid portrait of the Roman Empire in all its complexity and wonder.
Christian and Pagan in the Roman Empire
Christian and Pagan in the Roman Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Christian and Pagan in the Roman Empire write by Tertullian. This book was released on 2001-09. Christian and Pagan in the Roman Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this volume, Robert D. Sider undertakes a judicious pruning of the original texts and brings a fresh accessibility to the important writings of Tertullian.
Constantine: Religious Faith and Imperial Policy
Constantine: Religious Faith and Imperial Policy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Constantine: Religious Faith and Imperial Policy write by A. Edward Siecienski. This book was released on 2017-01-12. Constantine: Religious Faith and Imperial Policy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Constantine: Religious Faith and Imperial Policy brings together some of the English-speaking world’s leading Constantinian scholars for an interdisciplinary study of the life and legacy of the first Christian emperor. For many, he remains a "sign of contradiction" (Luke 2:34) whose life and legacy generate intense debate. He was the first Christian emperor, protector of the Church, and eventually remembered as "equal to the apostles" for bringing about the Christianization of the Empire. Yet there is another side to Constantine’s legacy, one that was often neglected by his Christian hagiographers. Some modern scholars have questioned the orthodoxy of the so-called model Christian emperor, while others have doubted the sincerity of his Christian commitment, viewing his embrace of the faith as merely a means to a political end. Drawing together papers presented at the 2013 symposium at Stockton University commemorating the 1700th anniversary of the Edict of Milan, this volume examines the very questions that have for so long occupied historians, classicists, and theologians. The papers in this volume prove once again that Constantine is not so much a figure from the remote past, but an individual whose legacy continues to shape our present.
The Final Pagan Generation
The Final Pagan Generation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Final Pagan Generation write by Edward J. Watts. This book was released on 2020-08-25. The Final Pagan Generation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A compelling history of radical transformation in the fourth-century--when Christianity decimated the practices of traditional pagan religion in the Roman Empire. The Final Pagan Generation recounts the fascinating story of the lives and fortunes of the last Romans born before the Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity. Edward J. Watts traces their experiences of living through the fourth century’s dramatic religious and political changes, when heated confrontations saw the Christian establishment legislate against pagan practices as mobs attacked pagan holy sites and temples. The emperors who issued these laws, the imperial officials charged with implementing them, and the Christian perpetrators of religious violence were almost exclusively young men whose attitudes and actions contrasted markedly with those of the earlier generation, who shared neither their juniors’ interest in creating sharply defined religious identities nor their propensity for violent conflict. Watts examines why the "final pagan generation"—born to the old ways and the old world in which it seemed to everyone that religious practices would continue as they had for the past two thousand years—proved both unable to anticipate the changes that imperially sponsored Christianity produced and unwilling to resist them. A compelling and provocative read, suitable for the general reader as well as students and scholars of the ancient world.
