No emperor had embraced paganism since Julian, who had died in 363. Olympic Games had been banned since the time of Theodosius II in the 390s. Non-Christians were banned from serving in the army or the imperial administration. As we have seen, part of Tribonian’s goal in revising the law was to apply an explicitly Christian flavor to the pagan jurists’ writings collected in the Digest. This was not mere window dressing. The time was fast approaching when pagan beliefs would not only be marginal, but illegal.19
