Pagans and Christians - In the Mediterranean World from the Second Century AD to the Conversion of Constantine

How did Christianity compare and compete with the cults of the pagan gods in the Roman Empire? This scholarly work places Christians and pagans side by side in the context of civic life and contrasts their religious experiences, visions, cults and oracles. Leading up to the time of the conversion of the first Christian emperor, Constantine, the book aims to enlarge and confirm the value of contemporary evidence, some of which has only recently been discovered...