The End of Paganism in the North-Western Provinces of the by Eberhard Sauer

By Eberhard Sauer

The decline of Mithraism within the fourth century advert is used as a case-study for realizing the tip of different periods of `paganism' within the Roman western provinces. the writer stories epigraphic and numismatic facts to this point the ultimate makes use of of Mithraea. He then discusses examples of wilful harm to Mithraic monuments. Drawing all this archaeological facts right into a ancient framework, Sauer argues that instead of wasting its social functionality because the Roman military turned splintered, Mithraism used to be a fit faith with lively shrines until eventually the very past due fourth century. instead of fading away, its desecrated monuments point out that the faith used to be the sufferer of a sustained Christian assault which used to be additionally directed at different tested faiths within the western provinces.

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