To: goldstategop
I don’t think so. The article calls him an Egyptian soldier, but he wrote in Greek, and was serving in the Roman army. 1800 years ago woul put this letter around the year 214 AD, well into the Christian era. He was apparently Greek and serving overseas..................
6 posted on
03/07/2014 12:12:21 PM PST by
Red Badger
(LIberal is an oxymoron......................)
To: Red Badger
1800 years ago woul put this letter around the year 214 AD, well into the Christian era. He was apparently Greek and serving overseas.................. ...and the Postal Service has only just delivered it. :-)
8 posted on
03/07/2014 12:13:46 PM PST by
Riley
(The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
To: Red Badger
Rome did not become Christian until a century later. He believes in the gods but he does not feel confident the situation was going to improve. On the eastern frontier, things were tense with the barbarians menacing it.
15 posted on
03/07/2014 12:16:09 PM PST by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: Red Badger
Lots of Greeks in Egypt after Alexander. Cleopatra of the Ptolemys was the most famous.
A soldier’s lot hasn’t changed much down through the ages, does it?
22 posted on
03/07/2014 12:34:56 PM PST by
elcid1970
("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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