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Bryan
June 30, 2025 at 9:06 PM Reacted withReaction (Post)
to Cassius’s post in the thread "The Darkening Age: Christian Destruction of the Classical World" - By Catherine Nixey (2018).I suspect that either Joshua or Eikadistes or both have included notable / infamous dates in the suppression of "paganism," closing of the schools, destruction of the temples, etc.
I would like to see us have a timetable of those major events so we… -
Bryan
June 30, 2025 at 9:06 PM Reacted withReaction (Post)
to TauPhi’s post in the thread "The Darkening Age: Christian Destruction of the Classical World" - By Catherine Nixey (2018).It happened few centuries after classical antiquity but Massacre of Verden in 782 somehow always stuck with me as a great example of Christianity spreading its love to pagans. Few people lost their heads over king Charlemagne's pious decree. Funnily, he… -
Don
June 30, 2025 at 6:45 PM Reacted withReaction (Post)
to TauPhi’s post in the thread "The Darkening Age: Christian Destruction of the Classical World" - By Catherine Nixey (2018).It happened few centuries after classical antiquity but Massacre of Verden in 782 somehow always stuck with me as a great example of Christianity spreading its love to pagans. Few people lost their heads over king Charlemagne's pious decree. Funnily, he… -
Don
June 30, 2025 at 6:45 PM Reacted withReaction (Post) to kochiekoch’s post in the thread "The Darkening Age: Christian Destruction of the Classical World" - By Catherine Nixey (2018).This guy makes very interesting historical videos about the late Roman Empire, in this case life for late Pagans. (Who he said, interestingly enough, called themselves "Hellenes").
He's worth a look.
How Was Life For Pagans In The Late Roman Empire? -
Cassius
June 30, 2025 at 6:04 PM Reacted withReaction (Post) to kochiekoch’s post in the thread "The Darkening Age: Christian Destruction of the Classical World" - By Catherine Nixey (2018).This guy makes very interesting historical videos about the late Roman Empire, in this case life for late Pagans. (Who he said, interestingly enough, called themselves "Hellenes").
He's worth a look.
How Was Life For Pagans In The Late Roman Empire? -
kochiekoch
PostJune 30, 2025 at 5:21 PM This guy makes very interesting historical videos about the late Roman Empire, in this case life for late Pagans. (Who he said, interestingly enough, called themselves "Hellenes").
He's worth a look.
How Was Life For Pagans In The Late Roman Empire? -
Kalosyni
Reaction (Post)June 30, 2025 at 4:52 PM Beginning with Episode 288 of the Lucretius Today Podcast recorded today, for the next six weeks or longer we are going to be dealing with important issues as to emotions: Should emotions be considered to be "diseases," as Cicero explains is implied in… -
Cassius
June 30, 2025 at 3:48 PM Reacted withReaction (Post) to TauPhi’s post in the thread "The Darkening Age: Christian Destruction of the Classical World" - By Catherine Nixey (2018).It happened few centuries after classical antiquity but Massacre of Verden in 782 somehow always stuck with me as a great example of Christianity spreading its love to pagans. Few people lost their heads over king Charlemagne's pious decree. Funnily, he… -
TauPhi
PostJune 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM It happened few centuries after classical antiquity but Massacre of Verden in 782 somehow always stuck with me as a great example of Christianity spreading its love to pagans. Few people lost their heads over king Charlemagne's pious decree. Funnily, he… -
Patrikios
June 30, 2025 at 2:45 PM Reacted withReaction (Post) to Joshua’s post in the thread "The Darkening Age: Christian Destruction of the Classical World" - By Catherine Nixey (2018).[…]
This is certainly the case, even when it has nothing to do with theology; Frederick Jackson Turner's Frontier Thesis and Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel both elicit a similar response, and the debate proceeds forever and forever ad nauseum.
My…
