Answer the questions as instructed on the word document .
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?