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1 day ago · Roman historians, even those who respected and sought to reconstruct the institutions of early Rome, emphasized the decline of these institutions in the middle and late Republic. 86 In retrospect, the actual arguments in favor of this view may seem flimsy, but it had been close to being a universally agreed view since the beginning of the history of Roman religion in the early 19th century. 87 The idea derived in part from theories that postulated an evolutionary progression starting from ...
4 days ago · Christians were persecuted throughout the Roman Empire, beginning in the 1st century AD and ending in the 4th century. Originally a polytheistic empire in the traditions of Roman paganism and the Hellenistic religion, as Christianity spread through the empire, it came into ideological conflict with the imperial cult of ancient Rome.
1 day ago · The spread of culture has been often paralleled with epidemic contagion. We propose to use models of this type to analyze Romanization and Christianization through onomastic data (names). We first examine the spread of Romanity in the ancient Greek world, and then the spread of Christianism, through the dynamics of Roman and Christian names acquisition. The dynamics of the transition from a pure Greek world to a Romanized world appear to have been fundamentally driven by an intense adoption ...
3 days ago · Christianity addresses the historical figure of Jesus Christ against the background of, and while seeking to remain faithful to, the experience of one God. It has consistently rejected polytheism and atheism .
3 days ago · Christianity began as a movement within Judaism at a period when the Jews had long been dominated culturally and politically by foreign powers and had found in their religion (rather than in their politics or cultural achievements) the linchpin of their community.
4 days ago · Roman Empire, the ancient empire, centered on the city of Rome, that was established in 27 BCE following the demise of the Roman Republic and continuing to the final eclipse of the empire in the West in the 5th century CE. Learn more about the Roman Empire in this article.
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1 day ago · Thematic course tracing the rise, fall, and legacy of the Roman Empire. Topics include the end of the Republic, early emperors, Romanization, early Christianity and Christianization, and the coming of the barbarians.
