The Final Pagan Generation (The Transformation of the Classical Heritage): Rome's Unexpected Path to Christianity: 53 - Hardcover

Watts, Edward J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520283708 ISBN 13: 9780520283701

Publisher: University of California Press, 2015

Synopsis

Final Pagan Generation

About this title

Review:

"Edward Watta's The Final Pagan Generation is among the best works of academic history I've ever read."--Yuval Levin"National Review" (12/07/2015)

"A fantastic slice of classical history."--Foreword Reviews (11/27/2014)

"Well researched and proficient . . . awash with well-organized historical information."-- (02/01/2015)

Accessible and engaging for students and general readers.-- (05/31/2015)

"Accessible to non-specialists and useful as an undergraduate text in courses...an absorbing, erudite, and highly useful book from which anyone studying late antiquity or early Christianity will profit."-- (12/01/2015)

"Watts demonstrates his mastery of both primary and modern sources . . . The text is virtually flawless."-- (12/13/2015)

"The Final Pagan Generation offers an innovative, beautifully written, and meticulously up-to-date social and political history of the fourth century." --Phoenix, Journal of the Classical Association of Canada

About the Author:

Edward J. Watts is Alkiviadis Vassiliadis Endowed Chair and Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Riot in Alexandria and City and School in Late Antique Athens and Alexandria, both from UC Press.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0520283708
• ISBN 13: 9780520283701
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304