Hadrian and the Christians / / edited by Marco Rizzi.

The Second Century occupies a central place in the development of ancient Christianity. The aim of the book is to examine how in the cultural, social, and religious efflorescence of the Second Century, to be witnessed in phenomena such as the Second Sophistic, Christianity found a peculiar way of in...

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Superior document:Millennium-Studien : Studien zu Kultur und Geschichte des ersten Jahrtausends n. Chr. ; Bd. 30 = Millennium studies : studies in the culture and history of the first millennium C.E. ; Bd. 30
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Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:Millennium-Studien ; Bd. 30.
Physical Description:1 online resource (192 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Hadrian and the Christians
  • Villa Adriana scenario del potere
  • La paideia di Adriano: alcune osservazioni sulla valenza politica del culto eroico
  • Hadrian, Eleusis, and the beginning of Christian apologetics
  • The Bar Kokhba Revolt and Hadrian's Religious Policy
  • The pseudo-Hadrianic Epistle in the Historia Augusta and Hadrian's religious policy
  • Serapis, Boukoloi and Christians from Hadrian to Marcus Aurelius
  • Conclusion: Multiple identities in Second century Christianity
  • Backmatter