Good thoughts in the article. I am surprised that Pliny was not more intellectually curious about Christianity as he was about other things.
Then again, he was a governor serving at the pleasure of the Emperor and his province would have come first.
We are Rome in so many ways.
We are Rome in so many ways.
In Augustine's City of God (written 412-426) he's often discuss people and incidents from Roman history. It's striking to me how familiar it all sounds. Names of people and wars and such are different, of course, but behaviors and intrigues are the same.
We are them, they are us.