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The Serapeum destroyed, the emperor murdered, pagans raise a revolt!A turning point in history, the six
years 389-395 AD in the Roman Empire saw many dramatic historical developments:the destruction of the
temple of Serapis in Alexandriathe first excommunication of an emperor everthe first murder of an emperor
at the hands of his Germanic bodyguards (many more to come)an imperial edict prohibits all practice of any
and all pagan religionsthe last significant rebellion of pagans against Christian rulethe 1200 years of the
Olympic tradition come to an endThe best-selling European author of books on Greaco-Roman antiquity
paints a rich and highly readable panorama of the intellectual life of the Roman Empire of the period. Here
they are, debating topics ranging from the moral consequences of bathing and chariot races to national
character and demon possession:the zany, crafty, and weird doctors of the Church: Ambrose, Jerome, and
Augustinethe caustic and dysphoric historian Ammianus Marcellinusthree fanatic historians of the
Churchthe grumpy rhetorician Libaniusthe blood-thirsty scholar-defenders of the Alexandrian Serapeumthe
author of a rabid anti-Christian diatribe which somehow miraculously survived to our times (The Lives of
Sophists)and the quirky and mysterious figure of "Jorge Luis Borges of ancient Rome" (Authors of Imperial
History)Quoting richly from various curious, entertaining, and beautiful texts from the period, Professor
Krawczuk gives us a broad intellectual survey of the Roman Empire and its leading personalities at the time
of the last revolt of the ancient gods.Aleksander Krawczuk (1922-2023) was a scholar, a professor at the
Jagiellonian University, a minister of culture, and a best-selling European author of books on Graeco-Roman
antiquity with an international cult following. His intimate and conversational style allowed him to talk
about complicated subjects in an accessible way without dumbing them down in the process. His books
remain in print in many languages across Europe. And now they finally appear in English.