The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World

by Catherine Nixey

When St. John Chrysostom gloated that the writings of the Greeks had been obliterated, he was more voicing a hope than stating a fact.

Christianity is not something that educated men in Rome do: it is the habit of women and vulgar foreigners in foreign places.

11 Pliny, once again, is the perfect Roman: too well educated to indulge in fervent belief of the gods; too well bred to spurn them.