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Index
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
A
Acropolis, Athens, 104, 249
Acts of John, 124
Acts of Paul and Thecla, 65
Aeschylus, 139
Agrippina, 55
Alban, St., 61
Alexander the Great, 90, 138
Alexandria, 77, 90, 121, 126, 135–46, 154, 167, 243–44
Great Library, 90–91, 94, 138–40, 141, 143, 173
Great Lighthouse, 90
Museum, 140
zoo, 140
Amantius, 171
Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, 13, 161
Ambrose of Alexandria, 208
Ammianus Marcellinus, 89, 162, 163, 172–73
Annals (Tacitus), 32
Antioch, 117, 120, 171, 190, 202, 213, 237
Antisthenes, 154
Antony, St.
abandons rich lifestyle, 3, 4–5
apparition seen by monks, 218n
biography of, 6–7, 158
demonic attacks, 15–16
fails to be martyred as he wished, 77
as founding father of monasticism, 6
life of isolation, humility and self-abnegation, 5–6
monastery of, 13
tempted by Satan, 6–7
wears hair shirt and never washes, 5, 77
Apamea, 125, 126
Aphrodite, 18, 114, 122, 123, 150, 209
Apocalypse of Peter, 201
Apollo, 120, 122, 247, 250, 259
Apollo of Scetis, 218
Archimedes, 140
Ares, 150
Aristarchus of Samos, 140
Aristotle, xxv, 169
Arius of Alexandria, 50, 167
Arnold, Matthew, 24
Arrius Antoninus, 77
Artemis, 124, 128–29
Athanasius, life of St. Antony, 6–7
Athena, xviii–xix, xxvi, 104, 113, 114, 246, 259
Athens
the Academy in, 245, 255
changing fabric of, 246
Christianity in, 245–46
Damascius in, 243–47
effect of Justinian’s laws in, 243, 247–49, 253–54
House C, 249–54, 259
and tale of the last seven philosophers, xxiii–xxv, 243–57, 259
Augustine, St., 154, 159, 160, 161, 169, 183, 192, 234
on bathing, 207
on becoming a Christian, 41
on the Bible’s register, 159–60
on the circumcellions, 78
decline of atomist philosophy, 176
on demons, 14, 18
dislike of atomism, 39
encourages Christians to smash pagan objects, 121
on God’s law, 225
on growth of Christianity, 127
his work on the Psalms is written over Cicero’s De re publica, xxviii–xxix
intolerance of, 48–49
knowledge of pronunciation and grammar, 159–60
on pagans’ ability to worship many gods, 48
personal life, 13
and punishing of errant Christians, 239–40
reaction to life of St. Antony, 6
and religious contamination, 20
shocked by acts of violence, 236
tells the unconverted to listen to the strepitus mundi, 24
on works opposed to Christian doctrine, 168–69
Augustus, Emperor, 4, 168, 189, 190
Avodah Zarah, 122
B
Bacchus, 18, 114
Basil, Bishop, 150–55, 185
Address, 154–55
“The Right Use of Greek Literature,” 150
baths and bathhouses, 205–7
Bede, Venerable, 149
Beirut, 170, 172
Benedictines, 149
Benedict of Nursia, 120
Bible, books of, 159–60, 161–62, 169
Corinthians, 41
Deuteronomy, 25, 102, 131, 170n
Genesis, 42–43
Gospel of John, 161
Gospel of Luke, 239
Gospel of Mark, 14, 119
Gospel of Matthew, 5, 35, 236
Psalms, 121
Bible stories
the Flood, 42–43
Jonah and the Whale, 49
Bithynia, 72, 84
books. See literature
Brideshead Revisited (Waugh), 193, 194n
British Museum, London, 113
Brown, Peter, 136–37, 183, 189
Buckland, William, 43
Byzantium, 154
C
Caelestis, 123
Caesarea, 238
Callimachus, 140
Canfora, Luciano, 94
Carthage, 121–22, 123, 127
Catullus, 160, 168
“Carmen 16,” 151, 155, 185
Collected Poems, 155
Caxton, William, 60–61
Celsus, 49, 159, 238
arguments against Christians and Christianity, 33, 34, 35–37, 40–41
disappearance of his work, 34–35
interest in different sorts of worship, 48
On the True Doctrine, 35
Origen’s counter-attack against, 35
Christians, Christianity
attacks and counter-attacks, 33–51, 234–35
attitude to literature and intellectual pursuits, 149–64
attractions of, 8
baths and bathhouses deplored by, 205–7
belief in demons and their ways, 14–21
belief in uniqueness of their religion, 43
and boundaries between sanctity and sorcery, 45
bureaucratic preferment and eternal delights, 9
considered hoodlums, thieves and vandals, 94
considered ignorant, 40–41
converts to, 126–28, 129–30, 191
destruction of the temples, statues and paganism, xvii–xix, 99–109, 113–29
disgust at other religions, 20–21
early mentions of in non-Christian literature, 32
historians’ and chroniclers’ views of, 114–15, 117, 119–20, 124–27, 183–84
homosexuality deplored, 207–8
horrified at theater and drama, 201–4
as intolerant and uncompromising, 23–24, 99–100, 103–4
loathing for Athenian philosophy, 251–53
martyr tales, 60–66
moralizing attitude towards food, sex and women, xxix, 191–97
persecution and execution of, 55, 59–60, 62–63, 77, 79–86
Pliny’s letter concerning, 73–76, 79–80, 84–85
punishments meted out by, 201, 234–35, 238–39
relationship with Roman officials and bureaucracy, 75–76
and religious contamination, 19–20
sex within marriage allowed but not enjoyed, 208–9
spread of, 34, 106–9, 183–84
and the strepitus mundi, 23–24
traditional narratives, 7–8
triumph of, xxvi, 107–9, 259
urged to spy on each other, xxx, 221, 235
violence and aggression of, 136–46, 234–39
willingness to die, 64, 77–84
Cicero, 151, 161, 175, 205
De re publica, xxviii–xxix
circumcellions, 235–36
origin of name, 78n
riotous anniversary celebrations, 78–79
City of God Against the Pagans (St. Augustine), 14
Claudius, Emperor, 55
Claudius Pulcher, Publius, 46–47
Clement of Alexandria, 192–97
Collected Poems (Catullus), 155
Constantine, Emperor, 129, 167
aggressive epistle concerning Porphyry and Arius, 50
ambiguous beliefs, 23
beneficent treatment of the early Church, 9, 101
boils his wife in a bath, 13, 100
builds temple to imperial family, 23
described as “a tyrant with the mind of a banker,” 103
and desecration of the temples, 102–5
founds Constantinople, 13
laws restricting �
�the pollution of idolatry,” 86, 116
luxurious living, 100
religious tolerance of, 21–22, 220
vision and conversion, 99, 107, 191
Constantinople, 13, 123
Constantius, Emperor, 116
Copenhagen Psalter, 149
Cordoba, 62
Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 149
Creation myth, 33, 36, 37–38, 42–43
Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, 182
Cyrene, 114
Cyril, Bishop of Alexandria, 142–43, 144, 145, 154, 164
D
Dalrymple, William, 218n
Damascius, 169–70
bravery of, xxiii, 244
dismayed at Persian way of life, 255–56
escapes to Athens, 244–45
and the fantastical, 169–70
influence on Athenian philosophy, 246
and “Law 1.11.10.2,” 248–49, 255
leaves Athens for Persia, xxiii, 249, 254–55
leaves Persia and vanishes, 257
life in House C, 249–54
loathing for Christians, 251–53
studies philosophy, 169, 243, 244
torture of his brother, xxiv, 244, 246–47
Decian persecution (AD 250–251), 66, 82
Decius, Emperor, 66, 105
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Gibbon), 34
Delphi, 103
Demeas, 129
Demeter, 114
Democritus, xxix, 39–40
demons
Christian views of, 131
connected with old religions, 21, 153
countering diabolic whispers, 16–17
descriptions of, 14–15
explanations, 18–19
hideous army of, 13–14
methods of attack, 15–16
motivations, 18
plots against mankind, 19
power of, 15
prophecies of, 18–19
and religious contamination, 19–21
Serapis considered a demon, 92
wicked thoughts and temptations, 17–18
Dendera, 115
De paucitate martyrum (“On the small number of martyrs”), 66
desert monks
asceticism of, 213–14
and battles with demons and Satan’s minions, 216