2018年5月21日 · By the end of the fourth century tolerance in religion, which had been the pride of Roman paganism, was destroyed by Gratian and Theodosius, the latter winning his title "Great" from the Christians for his intolerant act of making Christianity the sole religion of the State and banning its rivals. Hyde, Walter Woodburn.

Greco-Roman polytheism in Rome survived the 455 CE sacking but it is unclear at what point traditional roman paganism transformed into hybrid Christian heresies versus any retention of religious purity. Secret cults by virtue of being secret are both hard to track and likely to mutate in isolation over time.

2016年9月16日 · Around the 1st century AD, the three biggest religions in the Roman empire were the Roman pantheon, Judaism, and Christianity. Why was Christianity so much more successful in gaining and keeping followers compared to the other two that by the end of the 4th century AD, it had become the Roman state religion?

2022年1月28日 · It is widely assumed that Hypatia was murdered because of her affiliations with paganism. Although it is known that Hypatia was a neoplatonist, and neoplatonism is not at all related to paganism, Hypatia could have still been considered a pagan in Christian eyes as they wouldn't be able to differentiate between a neo-platonist and a pagan.

2019年11月1日 · The Roman gods were always numinous forces as much as they were people with great powers. The Roman religion has been characterizes as being "organized superstition" and some Roman rituals were meaningless to the participants and done only because they'd always been done that way and it might be bad luck to stop.

2017年4月13日 · This is a good answer. What I would differentiate however, is that the Greeks practiced pederasty rather more than the Romans. The Roman mores, especially of the Republican time, discouraged male-male relationships and associated it with "feminine Greek/Eastern culture" -- this does not however mean it was not practiced; far from it. –

2015年1月19日 · Unlike the earlier Constantinian based Edict of Milan which legalized Christian across the Italian peninsula and much of the Roman Empire, Theodosius' more draconian, Edict of Thessaloniki, essentially nationalized Christianity, making it the statewide religion of Italy, Greece, Asia Minor-(present-day Turkey), as well as throughout many parts ...

2019年9月10日 · Neither the Zeus lightning nor the wildlife on her right arm have any connection to the base! Further is the style completely off for a Roman sculpture. Real Roman style – of Kybele – looked more like this: Fig. 4. Pirro Ligorio, Drawing of a marble altar dedicated to Magna Mater and Attis. BNN XII.B7, fol 57.

2018年3月30日 · Roman/Greek paganism is not much different that any other paganism, like Africans or Native Americans, it is just that their mythologies are better recorded and quite extensive after centuries of theatrical plays and books in written form. They might have better philosophy than an African tribe, but this do not make a revealed religion.

2017年11月26日 · Gibbon, in his HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, discusses this in Chapter XVI: Conduct Towards The Christians, From Nero To Constantine.—Part V: The edict of Marcus Antoninus is supposed to have been the effect of his devotion and gratitude for the miraculous deliverance which he had obtained in the …