A Companion Roman Religion - Spiritual Minds

paganism of the ancient world, which is why one sees cives romani honoring Mercury in Gaul and Frugifer in a temple of Alma in A ...

those in the mountain sanctuaries of the Convenae. At Thibilis in Africa in the third century, every year the magistrates of the ...

of the world over which peace was guaranteed by the imperial victories. During the same period, at Dura-Europos on the eastern l ...

Conclusion The network of divine patronage and deified imperial power, the city and the empire: the forms of religion which grad ...

CHAPTER EIGHT Old Religions Transformed: Religions and Religious Policy from Decius to Constantine Hartmut Leppin The epoch from ...

Old Religions Transformed 97 as well as the polisreligion, magic rituals as well as the veneration of Isis – and this list could ...

teaching was continued and changed by the next heads of his school, Porphyry and Iamblichus. Both opened Neoplatonism to the mul ...

in themselves. The Christian communities became divided between the confessors, who had withstood the pressure of the government ...

Diocletianic persecution. The Melitians sided with Arius, thus strengthening his moral authority. To sum up, Christianity had be ...

but by higher magistrates such as proconsuls. Even if there is no doubt that Decius was a traditionalist, his edict de factomean ...

When Gallienus, Valerian’s son, became sole emperor in 260, he revoked his father’s anti-Christian edicts (Eus. HE 7.13). This d ...

had an impact on the whole empire), Diocletian ordered the leaders of Manicheism to be burnt alive together with their books (Co ...

Imperial Intervention II: Reshaping Christianity Constantine (the Great) was the eldest son of the tetrarch Constantius. Exclude ...

faces, “which are formed after the celestial beauty” (CTh9.40.2 [315]), or the interdiction on inscribing convicted persons as g ...

Alexander and most of his opponents, but had the disadvantage of not being a biblical term. Nevertheless, the council fathers ac ...

theologically nuanced ideas about this religion. If it is true that he wanted to be buried among the cenotaphs of the 12 apostle ...

suffering, Christianity seemed to give the best answers and to set the most impres- sive examples in the eyes of many contempora ...

CHAPTER NINE Religious Koine and Religious Dissent in the Fourth Century Michele Renee Salzman In a justly famous passage, the h ...

however, is that even in religion, in terms of practices, attitudes, and beliefs, there was much that pagans and Christians shar ...

in its civic and public religious spaces. They also, as we shall see, shared private reli- gious space and ritual in Rome as in ...