The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
The Ancients
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What Happened to the Temple of Serapis?
There is a sense among christian scholars, and scholars will naturally feel it, when a scholar, another scholar and other aris a tacx tat. There is a sense that this should not have happened. I remember walking round the british museum with in jenkins, the man who used to be in charge of that section of greece and rome, and i said, or could they not have just been damaged by accident? And he said, you don't accidentally have your head cut off if you're 60 feet up in the air. Absolutely noas a lot of time and effort comeinto converting something into a church. It wasn't a cost free thing
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