Pagan Temples, Christians, and Demons in the Late Antique East and West
Robert Wiśniewski
In Late Antiquity Christian attitudes toward pagan shrines in diverse parts of the Mediterranean differed. East several temples were destroyed or transformed into churches, whereas West they just abandoned at end fourth century and remained closed during next two hundred years. These contrasting have been explained by scholars on political, economic, civic grounds. This article aims demonstrating that religious motifs mattered as well, practical influenced fact considered to be real dwellings demons. view derived from an old tradition, absent West, representing places actual encounters with gods, spectacular way which some functioned Antiquity, specific traits eastern monasticism.
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