Contents

pp v-viii

List of Illustrations

pp ix-x

Biographies of Authors

pp xi-xiv

Acknowledgments

pp xv-xvi

Introduction

pp 1-8

Part I - SENATORIAL POLITICS AND RELIGIOUS CONFLICT

pp 9-10

1 - Constantine and the Roman Senate: Conflict, Cooperation, and Concealed Resistance

pp 11-45

2 - Beyond Pagans and Christians: Politics and Intra-Christian Conflict in the Controversy over the altar of Victory

pp 46-63

3 - Were Pagans Afraid to Speak Their Minds in a Christian World? The Correspondence of Symmachus

pp 64-112

Part II - The Construction of New Religious Identities

pp 113-114

4 - Christians and the Invention of Paganism in the Late Roman Empire

pp 115-138

5 - Late Antique Divi and Imperial Priests of the Late Fourth and Early Fifth Centuries

pp 139-161

6 - Artis heu magicis : The Label of Magic in Fourth-Century Conflicts and Disputes

pp 162-177

7 - Crowd Behavior in Late Antique Rome

pp 178-194

Part III - Pagans and Christians: Coexistence and Competition

pp 195-196

Section A - Pagans and Religious Practices in Christian Rome

8 - Reinterpreting the Cult of Mithras

pp 197-212

9 - Napkin Art: Carmina contra paganos and the Difference Satire Made in Fourth-Century Rome

pp 213-231

10 - Poetry and Pagans in Late Antique Rome: The Case of the Senator “Converted from the Christian Religion to Servitude to the Idols”

pp 232-250

11 - Professiones Gentiliciae: The Collegia of Rome between Paganism and Christianity

pp 251-270

Section B - Death and the Afterlife

pp 271-272

12 - Reinterpreting “Pagans” and “Christians” from Rome's Late Antique Mortuary Evidence

pp 273-290

13 - On the Form and Function of Constantine's Circiform Funerary Basilicas in Rome

pp 291-313

14 - Romanae gloria plebis: Bishop Damasus and the Traditions of Rome

pp 314-329

15 - Storytelling and Cultural Memory in the Making: Celebrating Pagan and Christian Founders of Rome

pp 330-342

Section C - Reading Religious Iconography as Evidence for Pagan–Christian Relations

pp 343-344

16 - Rome and Imagery in Late Antiquity: Perception and Use of Statues

pp 345-359

17 - What to Do with Sacra Antiqua? A Reinterpretation of the Sculptures from S. Martino ai Monti in Rome

pp 360-378

18 - Myth and Salvation in the Fourth Century: Representations of Hercules in Christian Contexts

pp 379-400