Christianity began with 120 in the Upper Room, within three centuries it had become the predominant religion of the Roman Empire. What… — C. Wagner Copy Share Image
Actuated by these motives, and apprehensive of disturbing the repose of an unsettled reign, Julian surprised the world by an edict which… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“A man who had the legions of the east marching at his back could be bred by a donkey on a mule… — M.C. Scott Copy Share Image
I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire. — Peter Jennings Copy Share Image
Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition, was not denied to the Roman slave; and if he had any opportunity of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The chaste severity of the fathers in whatever related to the commerce of the two sexes flowed from the same principle --… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
This condition of uncertainty and unrest in the Roman Empire might explain why at Plotinus' philosophy encourages us to sort of flee… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
Theodosius was chaste and temperate; he enjoyed, without excess, the sensual and social pleasures of the table, and the warmth of his… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
We were essentially torn from the Gaian womb, thrust into the birth canal of history, and expelled sometime around the fall of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It was the fashion of the times to attribute every remarkable event to the particular will of the Deity; the alterations of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Pompeii is taught at schools in England, and, for a young boy, the combination of the Roman Empire and a volcano was… — Paul W. S. Anderson Copy Share Image
