Religions of Rome by Mary Beard, John North and Simon Price (Cambridge University Press 1998)) - many general histories of Rome include some discussion of religion, but this is perhaps the most up ...

The way the Roman Empire developed, was gradually to take over more and more territories in the eastern Mediterranean. Some of these were governed as provinces. You can imagine the Roman Empire ...

The discovery points to larger themes of religion and construction in the ... from Egypt to the Middle East as part of the Eastern Roman Empire, in addition to the Lycian coast, southwest Turkey ...

Now, the really difficult thing is, to explain that great jump that takes place when Christianity moves out of the villages of Palestine into the urban centers of the Eastern Roman provinces ...

Christianity was made the official religion of the Roman Empire by the Emperor Constantine in the 4th century AD. Before then, Christians got into trouble because they refused to worship the ...