Question 1 and 2

Each question has to have a 300 word response.

Named resources that do not have links will be uploaded separately.

1. Rome and Christianity: Read the following

· The Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity available at  https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/perpetua.asp

· Pliny’s Letters about the Christians available on d2l

· “Selected Readings on Rome and Christianity” available on d2l

and consider the following:

· How much of a threat were early Christians to the stability of the empire?

· How might you characterize the Roman response to the spread of Christianity during from these sources?

2. Read the following

· Ammianus Marcellinus, Book 22.1-14 available at  http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Ammian/22*.html

· Ammianus Marcellinus, Book 25.4 available at  http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Ammian/25*.html

· Julian, Letters, 22, 29, 36, 37 and 39 available at  https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Letters_of_Julian

· Gregory of Nazianzus, First Invective Against Julian, 74-76, available on d2l

and consider the following:

· How significant was Julian’s revival of paganism among his aims as emperor?