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Catherine Nixey is a British journalist and author, formerly a classics scholar at Cambridge University. She writes for The Economist and is known for her engaging works on history and culture, particularly focusing on the intersection of religion and classical civilization.
Known for: The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
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The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
A provocative history that explores how early Christian zealots systematically destroyed the art, literature, and philosophy of classical antiquity. Catherine Nixey reveals how the rise of Christianity led to the suppression of pagan culture, the closure of philosophical schools, and the loss of much of the ancient world’s intellectual heritage.
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The Classical World
Before Christianity rose to power, the Greco-Roman world teemed with intellectual ferment and aesthetic brilliance. It was a civilization where philosophers engaged in public debate, sculptors raised marble into gods, and poets sang of humanity’s noblest and darkest passions. The gods themselves — p...
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The Rise of Christianity
Christianity’s early progress through the Roman Empire was uneven but relentless. At first persecuted as a sect of subversive mystics, Christians gradually built a counterculture grounded in exclusivity. Their refusal to honor the pagan gods was both courageous and destabilizing. The Roman state, wh...
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About Catherine Nixey
Catherine Nixey is a British journalist and author, formerly a classics scholar at Cambridge University. She writes for The Economist and is known for her engaging works on history and culture, particularly focusing on the intersection of religion and classical civilization.
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