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[WEB:Ancient History Sourcebook: Late Antiquity]

I. The Roman Peace 31-BCE-180 CE [WEB: Ancient History Sourcebook: Rome]
  1. Geography
  2. Pax Romana [TXT: Augustus (63 BCE-14 CE): Res Gestae Divi Augusti, c. 14 CE, long excerpts, in English]

II. Economic and Social Conditions
  1. Cities [IMG:Leptis Magna North Africa][IMG:The Aqueduct at Caesarea][TXT: Juvenal (c.55-c.130 CE): Satire 3: On the City of Rome]
  2. Trade and Industry
  3. Agriculture
  4. Households [IMG:Roman Couple, Pompeii 1st Cent BCE]

III. The Third and Fourth Centuries [WEB: Medieval Sourcebook: Late Antiquity]
  1. Anarchy and Recovery [IMG: Image: Diocletian][TXT: Petition to the Emperor Philip: On Official & Military Extortion, 246 CE][TXT: Diocletian (284-305 CE) and Constantine (308-337 CE): Efforts to Stabilize the Economy]
  2. The New Religious Mood [TXT:Accounts of Personal Religion, c. 430 BCE - 300 CE]
    1. Mystery religions [IMG:Mithras Killing a Bull] [IMG:Isis and Horus 3rd Cent Coptic cf. Mary and Jesus 5-6 Cent, from Fayum][TXT: Lucius Apuleius (c.123-c.170 CE): Isis, Queen of Heaven, from Book 11 of the Golden Ass]
    2. Neoplatonism [2ND: Neoplatonism]
    3. Mysticism

IV. Christianity [WEB:From Jesus to Christ]
  1. Jesus [TXT: Text: The Sermon on the Mount: Matthew 5-7] [IMG: Image: Jesus as Ruler of the Universe, Sinai, 6th Cent CE]
  2. The Early Church [IMG Icon of St. Paul][WEB: Ancient History Sourcebook: St Paul][WEB:The Christian Catacombs of Rome]
  3. Christianity and Classical Culture [WEB: Ancient History Sourcebook: Christian Origins]
  4. Christianity and Empire [TXT:Edict of Galerius and the "Edict of Milan", 311/313 CE]
  5. Christianity and Judaism [WEB:Scrolls from the Dead Sea]
  6. The Latin Doctors [WEB: Medieval Sourcebook The World of the Church Fathers]
    1. Ambrose [TXT: Theodoret (c.393-466 CE): St. Ambrose Humiliates Theodosius the Great, Ecclesiastical History, V.17-18]
    2. Jerome [TXT: Jerome (374-419/20): On Classical Literature ]
    3. Augustine [TXT:Augustine of Hippo (354-430): City of God]





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