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050	0	0	_aBL432 _b.W38 2015
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100	1		_aWatts, Edward Jay, _d1975-
245	1	4	_aThe final pagan generation / _cEdward J. Watts.
264		1	_aOakland, California : _bUniversity of California Press, _c[2015]
264		4	_c©2015
300			_axvi, 327 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aTransformation of the classical heritage ; _vLIII
520			_a"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 toward violent conflict. Watts examines why the 'final pagan generation'-born to the old ways and the old world in which it seemed to everyone that religious practices would continue as they had for the last two thousand years--proved 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"--Provided by publisher.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
650		0	_aPaganism _zRome.
650		0	_aChristianity and other religions _zRome.
651		0	_aRome _xReligion.
830		0	_aTransformation of the classical heritage ; _v53.
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