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The Final Pagan Generation - Rome's Unexpected Path to Christianity (Paperback)
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The Final Pagan Generation - Rome's Unexpected Path to Christianity (Paperback)
Series: Transformation of the Classical Heritage
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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.
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