05-03-2011, 01:32 AM
Quote:This new book promises to be an interesting read.I am currently reading it. The two first chapters were not as good as I had been hoping for (the first one discusses the non-question whether we should call the non-Christians pagans or polytheists), but after that, the book's a delightful read, very perceptive and interesting.
It should help dispel the modern romanticized myths of 'heroic' pagans resisting Christianity propagated by Gibbon and his ilk (and movies like Agora).
[size=150:1kfqgx8a]The Last Pagans of Rome[/size] by Alan Cameron
Hardcover: 896 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (December 21, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 019974727X
ISBN-13: 978-0199747276