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From Obscurity to Sole Inhabitant

Alexander Krauzlis College Year in Athens Siena College alexanderkrauzlis@gmail.com

 

The history of Alexandria is one which often is wanting of archeological evidence, so chronicles become the main source of our understanding of Alexandrias past. This article will provide a narrative of the first Christians in Alexandria and in doing so, insight into …

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H.C. Teitler, The Last Pagan Emperor: Julian the Apostate and the War against Christianity

H.C. Teitler, The Last Pagan Emperor: Julian the Apostate and the War against Christianity, Oxford University Press, New York 2017.

Flavius Claudius Julianus was the last pagan to sit on the Roman imperial throne (361-363). Born in Constantinople in 331 or 332, Julian was raised as a Christian, but apostatized, and during his …

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