Ultima generație păgână

Edward J. Watts looks at Rome’s turn to the Christian faith. This shift took place in the fourth century. He traces one age, from Constantine’s rule to Julian’s. Julian was a pagan emperor and a thinker. The book shows how faith, politics, and social life changed. It looks at how people saw their place in the world.

This history tells of the lives of leading Romans. Watts follows speakers, thinkers, and men who helped run the state. He looks at their choices as faiths clashed. Greek, Roman, and Eastern gods had shared a world of many faiths. Christians challenged that world. The empire’s laws and those in power gave their faith more support. How did pagans face these changes and lose their temples? The book asks how they dealt with both.

Watts puts the focus on how people lived through this shift. He does not just study the teachings of faith. Wilhelm Tauwinkl and Dan Siserman translated this edition from English.