CLAS 1010 Lecture 17: 08.01_ConstantineTheGreat

• School: University of Georgia
• Department: Classical Culture
• Course: CLAS 1010
• Professor: Erasmo

Document Summary

Christianity did not become popular in the west until the 3rd century. Christianity first achieved notoriety when nero made christians the scapegoats for the great fire of rome in ad 64 (historical jesus died some 35 years before this fire) End of the 1st century alternating pattern between persecution and toleration, this continued with the reign of constantine in early 4th century. Domitian (ad 81-96) (like nero) is said to have had persecuted the. Trajan (ad 98-117) a good emperor ignored the christians as much as possible. 250, the emperor decius (ad 249-51) issued an edict requiring all citizens of rome to make sacrifices to traditional gods of rome unable to do this, many christians suffered torture and death. 303 persecution against christians from galerius as an attempt to bolster the old faith. 312 constantine made christianity the state religion; he was baptized on his deathbed in 337.