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London: G. Chapman, 1976 The cover has moderate shelf wear. The pages are somewhat tanned and spotted with age. 280 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Size F: 9"-10" Tall (228-254mm).
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- Title Death of Classical Paganism
- Author Smith, John Holland
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Geoffrey C
- Publisher Geoffrey Chapman (An imprint of Cassell), London
- Date 1976
- ISBN 9780225660975
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The Death of Classical Paganism
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THE DEATH OF CLASSICAL PAGANISM
by Smith, John Holland
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Geoffrey Chapman Publishers. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1976. Hardcover. 0225660970 . Shelfwear book and dustjacket. Rounding to top of spine. Light pencil underlining on a few pages. ; It is a study of the Roman world in the first five centuries after Christ, and it tells the story of the historically improbable oddity of how a religious cult centered on an obscure construction worker living in the backwaters of a great Empire supplants the sophisticated Classical European religious worldview that had been embraced for thousands of years. Of particular interest to me was the story of Julian the Apostate, the last Roman emperor to openly embrace paganism. The author generously devotes an entire chapter to this remarkable personage. Although Julian was a nephew of Emperor Constantine and was raised as a Christian, he renounced the "new" religion when he became an adult and embraced the gods of his fathers. Because Julian ruled the Empire for a scant three years, he had…
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