"In the early Roman empire, Christians were seen by pagans as overthrowers of ancient gods and destroyers of the prevailing social order. Allegations that Chris

The author recreates the world from the second to the fourth century A.D., when the gods of Olympus lost their dominion, and Christianity, with the conversion o

Who and what was pagan depended on the outlook of the observer, as Christopher Jones shows in this fresh and penetrating analysis. Treating paganism as a histor

An Introduction to Early Church History, Being a Survey of the Relations of Christianity and Paganism in the Early Roman Empire by Robert Martin Pope, first pub

This book sheds new light on the religious and consequently social changes taking place in late antique Rome. The essays in this volume argue that the once-domi