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5 days ago · James L. Papandrea says there are ten emperors generally accepted to have sponsored state sanctioned persecution of Christians, though the first empire-wide government sponsored persecution was not until Decius in 249.
Jun 2, 2024 · The Prima Porta statue of Augustus ( r. 27 BC – AD 14), the first Roman emperor. The Roman emperors were the rulers of the Roman Empire from the granting of the name and title Augustus to Octavian by the Roman Senate in 27 BC onward. [1] Augustus maintained a facade of Republican rule, rejecting monarchical titles but calling himself princeps ...
Jun 12, 2024 · Persecution of pagans in the late Roman Empire began during the reign of Constantine the Great (r. 306–337) in the military colony of Aelia Capitolina , when he destroyed a pagan temple for the purpose of constructing a Christian church.
May 25, 2024 · However, the worship of emperors as gods put the Romans at odds with monotheistic religions like Judaism and Christianity. The refusal of Jews and Christians to participate in the imperial cult was one factor in their persecution by the Roman state. Syncretization with Foreign Gods
May 24, 2024 · The death toll exceeded the toll among Christians at the hands of pagans in earlier persecutions. It was rarely of Jews or pagans at the hands of Christians or of Christians at the hands of pagans, but ordinarily of Christians at each others’ hands in the course of sectarian strife .
5 days ago · By the end of the 4th century, therefore, Christianity had been transformed from a persecuted sect to the dominant faith of the empire, in the process becoming intertwined with the imperial government.
May 24, 2024 · Pagans as well as orthodox Nicaeans (Homoousians) and extremist Arians (Anomoeans) were persecuted, for in 356–357 several edicts proscribed magic, divination, and sacrifices and ordered that the temples be closed.
