- 344 pages
- English
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About this book
The Final Pagan Generation recounts the fascinating story of the lives and fortunes of the last Romans born before the Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity. Edward J. Watts traces their experiences of living through the fourth century's dramatic religious and political changes, when heated confrontations saw the Christian establishment legislate against pagan practices as mobs attacked pagan holy sites and temples. The emperors who issued these laws, the imperial officials charged with implementing them, and the Christian perpetrators of religious violence were almost exclusively young men whose attitudes and actions contrasted markedly with those of the earlier generation, who shared neither their juniors' interest in creating sharply defined religious identities nor their propensity for violent conflict. Watts examines why the "final pagan generation"āborn to the old ways and the old world in which it seemed to everyone that religious practices would continue as they had for the past two thousand yearsāproved both unable to anticipate the changes that imperially sponsored Christianity produced and unwilling to resist them. A compelling and provocative read, suitable for the general reader as well as students and scholars of the ancient world.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- The Final Pagan Generation
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Growing Up in the Cities of the Gods
- 2. Education in an Age of Imagination
- 3. The System
- 4. Moving Up in an Age of Uncertainty
- 5. The Apogee
- 6. The New Pannonian Order
- 7. Christian Youth Culture in the 360s and 370s
- 8. Bishops, Bureaucrats, and Aristocrats under Gratian, Valentinian II, and Theodosius
- 9. Old Age in a Young Manās Empire
- 10. A Generationās Legacy
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index