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Rufinus vivid account of the battle between the Eastern Emperor Theodosius and the Western usurper Eugenius by the River Frigidus in 394 represents it as the final confrontation between paganism and Christianity It is indeed widely believed that a largely pagan aristocracy remained a powerful and active force well into the fifth century sponsoring pagan literary circles patronage of the classics and propaganda for the old cults in art and literature The main focus of much modern scholarship on the end of paganism in the West has been on its supposed stubborn resistance to Christianity The dismantling of this romantic myth is one of the main goals of Alan Camerons book Actually the book argues Western paganism petered out much earlier and more rapidly than hitherto assumed The subject of this book is not the conversion of the last pagans but rather the duration nature and consequences of their survival By reexamining the abundant textual evidence both Christian Ambrose Augustine Jerome Paulinus Prudentius and pagan Claudian Macrobius and Ammianus Marcellinus as well as the visual evidence ivory diptychs illuminated manuscripts silverware Cameron shows that most of the activities and artifacts previously identified as hallmarks of a pagan revival were in fact just as important to the life of cultivated Christians Far from being a subversive activity designed to rally pagans the acceptance of classical literature learning and art by most elite Christians may actually have helped the last reluctant pagans to finally abandon the old cults and adopt Christianity The culmination of decades of research The Last Pagans of Rome overturns many longheld assumptions about pagan and Christian culture in the late antique West
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Rufinus vivid account of the battle between the Eastern Emperor Theodosius and the Western usurper Eugenius by the River Frigidus in 394 represents it as the final confrontation between paganism and Christianity It is indeed widely believed that a largely pagan aristocracy remained a powerful and active force well into the fifth century sponsoring pagan literary circles patronage of the classics and propaganda for the old cults in art and literature The main focus of much modern scholarship on the end of paganism in the West has been on its supposed stubborn resistance to Christianity The dismantling of this romantic myth is one of the main goals of Alan Camerons book Actually the book argues Western paganism petered out much earlier and more rapidly than hitherto assumed The subject of this book is not the conversion of the last pagans but rather the duration nature and consequences of their survival By reexamining the abundant textual evidence both Christian Ambrose Augustine Jerome Paulinus Prudentius and pagan Claudian Macrobius and Ammianus Marcellinus as well as the visual evidence ivory diptychs illuminated manuscripts silverware Cameron shows that most of the activities and artifacts previously identified as hallmarks of a pagan revival were in fact just as important to the life of cultivated Christians Far from being a subversive activity designed to rally pagans the acceptance of classical literature learning and art by most elite Christians may actually have helped the last reluctant pagans to finally abandon the old cults and adopt Christianity The culmination of decades of research The Last Pagans of Rome overturns many longheld assumptions about pagan and Christian culture in the late antique West
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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 centurys 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 generationborn 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 yearsproved 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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First of the widely celebrated and sumptuously illustrated series this book reveals in intimate detail what life was really like in the ancient world Behind the vast panorama of the pagan Roman empire the reader discovers the intimate daily lives of citizens and slavesfrom concepts of manhood and sexuality to marriage and the family the roles of women chastity and contraception techniques of childbirth homosexuality religion the meaning of virtue and the separation of private and public spaces The emergence of Christianity in the West and the triumph of Christian morality with its emphasis on abstinence celibacy and austerity is startlingly contrasted with the profane and undisciplined private life of the Byzantine Empire Using illuminating motifs the authors weave a rich colorful fabric ornamented with the results of new research and the broad interpretations that only masters of the subject can provide
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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 centurys 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 generationborn 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 yearsproved 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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As perceived by the average Roman citizen the early rites and behavior of Christians laid them open to charges of cannibalism immorality and the practice of magic and conspiring and fomenting rebellion aganst the state The early church fathers rejected these accusations and portrayed pagans as victims of misinformation or perpetrators of ill will Benko proposes to give the pagans the benefit of the doubt and analyzes their charges against Christianity under the premise that they may have been right within the context of the times He has provided a persuasively argued and refreshingif controversialperspective on the confrontation of the pagan and early Christian worlds
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