Pagans and Christians
  • Published: 7 August 2006
  • ISBN: 9780141022956
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 800
  • RRP: $49.99

Pagans and Christians

In the Mediterranean World from the Second Century AD to the Conversion of Constantine

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One of the most important books about the history of the Roman Empire published in the last thirty years.

How did Christianity compare and compete with the cults of the pagan gods in the Roman Empire? This scholarly work from award-winning historian, Robin Lane Fox, places Christians and pagans side by side in the context of civil life and contrasts their religious experiences, visions, cults and oracles. Leading up to the time of the first Christian emperor, Constantine, the book aims to enlarge and confirm the value of contemporary evidence, some of which has only recently been discovered.
  • Published: 7 August 2006
  • ISBN: 9780141022956
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 800
  • RRP: $49.99
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About the author

Robin Lane Fox

Robin Lane Fox was born in 1946 and educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford. He is a Fellow of New College and University Reader in ancient History. Since 1979 he has been weekly gardening correspondent of the Financial Times. Alexander the Great won the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the W.H. Heinemann Award on its first publication in 1973.

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