The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
The Ancients
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Author and journalist Catherine nixey wrote a book entitled the darkening age, the christian destruction of the classical world. Today we're going to be looking at city, at settlements such as alexandria, the destruction of a building called the serapeum. Were going to be talking about figures such as hypatia, such as julian the apostate. And we'll be exploring how this destructive element in the rise of christianity affected certain bits of art and architecture from the ancient mediterranean,. greco roman world. So without further, let's talk through all this and so much more.
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