CONTENTS
Dedication
PROLOGUE
PART I
RELIGION WITHOUT A HISTORY
CHAPTER 1 THE TOUR GUIDE’S VERSION
CHAPTER 2 THE GAMES OF THE CENTURY
CHAPTER 3 AN ELOQUENT MAN WHO LOVED HIS COUNTRY
CHAPTER 4 WHAT IS A GOD?
CHAPTER 5 DIVINE BUTCHERY
CHAPTER 6 WAYS OF KNOWING
CHAPTER 7 THE SPECTER OF ATHEISM
CHAPTER 8 GODS AT HOME
CHAPTER 9 DIVINE EXALTATION
PART II
THE HISTORY OF PAGANISM
CHAPTER 10 CONSTANTINE IN HIS WORLD
CHAPTER 11 A NEW LEAF
CHAPTER 12 THE BIRTH OF PAGANISM
CHAPTER 13 THE BAPTISM OF PAGANISM
CHAPTER 14 THE FIRST CHRISTIAN EMPEROR
CHAPTER 15 THE SERVANT OF CHRISTIANITY
CHAPTER 16 THE TRIUMPH OF PAGANISM
CHAPTER 17 WHAT REMAINED
CHAPTER 18 CICERO REBORN
CHAPTER 19 A ROMAN RELIGION
EPILOGUE
Notes
Further Reading
Index
About the Author
Also by James J. O’Donnell
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