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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Careful studies of the destruction of the Pagan religion of Rome and Greece, such as this one, make it clear that the decline was neither inevitable nor welcomed by the whole of society. The Sunday school vision of a world in which only ignorant peasants believed in the old gods while the philosophers merely pretended to a awaited the new faith is definitely destroyed by works such as this. ( ) This short book does a marvelous job narrating the slow, inexorable death of classical civilization. Chuvin has full command of the original sources and weaves them into a threnody that is poignant (Justinian's closing the School of Athens and the quixotic departure of the philosophers for Persia), brutal (is there another religion besides Christianity that sends heretics to burn at the stake with such elan?), and occasionally absurd (Anatolias, the governor of Antioch, running away to the local bishop from a ceremony honoring Zeus when the Byzantine police closed in and pretending to be consulting the bishop on a matter of scripture). sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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A Chronicle of the Last Pagans is a history of the triumph of Christianity in the Roman Empire as told from the perspective of the defeated: the adherents of the mysteries, cults, and philosophies that dominated Greco-Roman culture. With a sovereign command of the diverse evidence, Pierre Chuvin portrays the complex spiritual, intellectual, and political lives of professing pagans after Christianity became the state religion. While recreating the unfolding drama of their fate--their gradual loss of power, exclusion from political, military, and civic positions, their assimilation, and finally their persecution--he records a remarkable persistence of pagan religiosity and illustrates the fruitful interaction between Christianity and paganism. The author points to the implications of this late paganism for subsequent developments in the Byzantine Empire and the West. Chuvin's compelling account of an often forgotten world of pagan culture rescues an important aspect of our spiritual heritage and provides new understanding of Late Antiquity. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)292.009015Religions Other Religions Classical religion (Greek and Roman religion) Greek and Roman religion Biography And HistoryClasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
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