The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
The Ancients
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The Temple of Serapis in the Three Nineties
Temples were practical in a way that we don't think of them. They were often the kind of way you'd store the treasury as well. So what happens to the temple of serapis in the three nineties? Well, then it goes wrong. It's not enough that they demolish it after these christians. And this reverberates through the literature of the ancient world. This is a profound shock. The word pagan, by the way, is not one that any ancient person would have ever used to cribe themselves. You would never have split the world in that way before. There was tension. Some people died. I think some christians died. On this day
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