Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction. Identity Politics in the Later Roman Empire 1
4. Chapter 1. Philosophers, Apologists, and Empire 15
5. Chapter 2. Porphyry on Greeks, Christians, and Others 52
6. Chapter 3. Vera Religio and Falsae Religiones: Lactantius's Divine Institutes 79
7. Chapter 4. What Difference Does an Emperor Make? Apologetics and Imperial Ideology in Constantine's Oration to the Saints and Imperial Letters 110
8. Chapter 5 From Hebrew Wisdom to Christian Hegemony: Eusebius of Caesarea’s Apologetics and Panegyrics 136
9. Epilogue Empire’s Palimpsest 166
10. Appendix. Porphyry’s Polemics and the Great Persecution 177
11. Abbreviations 187
12. Notes 191
13. Bibliography 233
14. Index 247
15. Acknowledgments 253