Pagans and Christians in late antiquity : a sourcebook / A.D. Lee.
In Pagans and Christians in Late Antiquity, A.D. Lee documents the transformation of the religious landscape of the Roman world from one of enormous diversity of religious practices and creeds in the 3rd century to a situation where, by the 6th century, Christianity had become the dominant religious...
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Table of Contents:
- PAGANS AND CHRISTIANS IN LATE ANTIQUITY
- FRONT COVER; PAGANS AND CHRISTIANS IN LATE ANTIQUITY ; TITLE PAGE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; CONTENTS ; ILLUSTRATIONS; PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION ; PREFACE TO THE ORIGINAL EDITION ; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ; Picture credits ; CONVENTIONS AND ABBREVIATIONS ; Conventions ; Abbreviations ; LIST OF EMPERORS ; GLOSSARY ; INTRODUCTION ; Late Antiquity: an overview ; The sources: types, languages, and dating ; Pagans or polytheists? ; Further reading and useful reference works ; PART I: PAGANS AND CHRISTIANS THROUGH TIME; CHAPTER 1: PAGANS IN THE THIRD CENTURY.
- 1.1 A religious calendar: P. Dura 54 (Cols 1-2) 1.2 Animal sacrifice: relief from the Arch of Septimius Severus, Lepcis Magna, North Africa ; 1.3 Substituting for animal sacrifice: CMRDM I.50 ; 1.4 Offering incense: fresco from the Temple of Bel, Dura-Europos ; 1.5 Arrangements for honouring the gods through music: I. Strat. 1101 ; 1.6 An example of a hymn: Ariphron of Sicyon, Hymn to Hygieia ; 1.7 Processions: a coin from Magnesia-on-the-Maeander, Asia Minor ; 1.8 Devotion to the goddess Isis: IGPhilae 168, 178, 180 ; 1.9 Votive offering for healing: a stele from Lydia, Asia Minor.
- 1.10 Questions to an oracle: P. Oxy. 1477 1.11 Curse tablets and magic: DT 286 (= ILS 8753) ; 1.12 An inventory of temple property: P. Oxy. 1449 ; 1.13 Neoplatonism: Prophyry Life of Plotinus 23 and Plotinus Enneads 5.4.1 ; 1.14 Spiritual sacrifice: Porphyry On Abstinence from Animal Food 2.34 ; 1.15 Dedications to 'the highest god': SEG 40 (1990) 1188, 1227; 19 (1963) 847 ; 1.16 The cult of Mithras: CIMRM 2350 and 1438 ; 1.17 The emperor Decius as 'restorer of the cults': AE (1973) 235 ; 1.18 The emperor Aurelian and the cult of the Sun: Zosimus New History 1.61.2 and CIL 6.31775.
- CHAPTER 2: CHRISTIANS IN THE THIRD CENTURY2.1 Christian organisation and activities: Tertullian Apology 39.1-6 ; 2.2 Christian charity in action: Eusebius Church History 7.22.7-10 ; 2.3 The number of Christians in third-century Rome: Eusebius Church History 6.43.11-12 ; 2.4 An early Christian house church: Dura-Europos, Syria ; 2.5 Christians in the imperial palace: ILCV 3332 and 3872 ; 2.6 Christians in local administration: SB 16.12497 ; 2.7 Women in the church: Porphyry Against the Christians fr. 97 (= Jerome Commentary on Isaiah 3.12.
- 2.8 An example of Gnostic literature: extracts from The Gospel of Philip (Nag Hammadi Codex II, 3) 2.9 Christian responses to pagan criticisms: Origen Against Celsus 5.25, 35, 8.73, 75 ; 2.10 Localised persecution and church divisions: Cyprian Letter 75.10 ; 2.11 Certificates of sacrifice from the Decian persecution: P. Mich. 3.157 and Wilcken no. 125 ; 2.12 A martyrdom during the Decian persecution: The Martyrdom of Pionius ; 2.13 Persecution by the emperor Valerian: Cyprian Letter 80 ; CHAPTER 3: PAGANS AND CHRISTIANS DURING THE TETRARCHY; 3.1 Tetrarchic 'theology': CIL 3.4415 (= ILS 659)