Saints & Origins of Christianity Flashcards
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Under whose reign did they begin to persecute Christians
Nero
Julio-Claudian Dynasty
Union of Rome’s two most powerful families.
Julian - Julius Caesar
Augustus was his adopted son. Married into it by marrying Livia. Thought to be descended from Aeneas - aka “Iulus”
Claudian - Sabine dynasty (8th cent. BC)
From the kidnapping of Sabine women.
Emperors:
Augustus
Tiberius
Caligula
Nero
Gemma Augustea
Inlaid gemstone of the emperors and families, depicting their reign.
Via Athea, there are underground caves where Christians hid out.
Roman catacombs
Augustus
Herod the Great (Antipas) - a ruler under Roman Authority over the Jews
Jesus was crucified after Augustus’s heir, Tiberius.
Apostle Paul wrote books about Jesus, road to Damascus.
He was beheaded in Rome as one the martyrs.
- not executed because he was a Roman citizen.
“Quo Vadis, Domine?”
Where are you going, Lord?
Peter’s death when trying to escape persecution.
Peter was executed upside down.
Christian belief was first handled locally in the High Empire.
However, they became more micro managed later on.
15th century ad.
High Empire
When emperors appointed their political leaders/heirs.
Emperors:
Antonine Emperor
Tetrarchy
Four emperors:
Falling out and become rivals.
- Diocletian tried to restore order of the empire.
Constantius I
Constantinus vs. Maxentius
Milvian Bridge - where show down happened
Slaves of Christians
Began spreading rumors about Christians to avoid being enslaved
- Cannibalism
- incestuous intercourse caused a stir
Public executions in the amphitheater - exposure to wild beasts. Others strangled and thrown to dogs.
“Agape” Love
Brotherly Love
St. Lawrence
Valerian
Shapur I Sixtus 2, was crucified.
Foresees ___ ___
St. Lawrence’s crucifixion.
Someone is corrupt.
Julian the Apostate
“Apostate” - giving up Christianity
As emperor, he crucified the teacher Cassain by turning his pupils
Saint Casian
“Stilus” - a wax pen how kids would write.
Julian ___ the students ___ the teacher
Turned, against.
Students stabbed Casian against the teacher.
Pagan re-imagining of Julius Ceasar.
Rise of the first Christian Emperors
Ex: General Camilus
The Passion Play - “The torture of Crucifixion.”
Greece has once been captured and transformed into Rom
The Romans had power over the Christians, but Christians conquered from within.
Romans believe all of __ was inhabited by spirits
nature
- Dryad, trees are masculine or feminine because of the spirit within them
Peter becomes the
Pontifex Maximus
End of the __ century is when Christianity took over.
4th
Rise of Christianity
Pacifist Movement - spread from the preaching of the Gospel
Sympathy arose from the cruel tortures and ‘entertainment.’
Martyrdom spread Christianity to the world.
Constantine
Had a vision that converted him to Christianity
Wrote Confessions
Constantinople (Byzantium of the Byzantine empire)
The new Roman capital in Northwest Turkey.
Milan
Themes of Confessions
Sin -
Book one: infancy, infants are born with sin (Original sin linked backed to Adam and Eve), elementary education
was trained in the classics of Virgil and Homer.
- Different take on gender roles of sin and the creation of women.
- puts down the culture of munerarius.
Book two: Teenage years
Puberty/adolescence
Meditation on the nature of lust
- Half about lust
- Gang culture and delinquency
- Theft
Anger
Amor - lust is that in confessions.
Book 3:
“Gang” culture
College in Carthage
Theater and got into philosophy
Became a master in the school of Rhetoric - art of public speaking and law
Began to study the Vulgate bible- the common dialect ‘Vulgar” bible.
Struggles with Lust
