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A bold new history of the rise of Christianity, showing how its radical followers helped to annihilate Greek and Roman civilization In Harran, the locals refused to convert. They were dismembered, their limbs hung along the town's main street. In Alexandria, black-robed zealots pulled the elderly philosopher-astronomer Hypatia from her chariot and flayed her to death. Not long before, their brethren had invaded the city's greatest temple and razed it—smashing its world-famous statues and destroying thousands of books, all that was left of Alexandria's Great Library. Today, we refer to Christianity's conquest of the West as a "triumph." In truth, it was an orgy of destruction that helped to extinguish classical culture and pitch Western civilization into a thousand-year-long decline. As Catherine Nixey reveals, evidence of early Christians' campaign of terror has been hiding in plain sight: in the palimpsests and shattered statues proudly...Pages of The Darkening Age :