ANCIENT WORKS

Aelius Spartianus (trans. D. Magie and D. Rohrbacher). 2022. “Septimius Severus,” in Historia Augusta, Volume I, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 356-411.

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Athenagoras (trans. B. P. Pratten). ‘A Plea for the Christians,’ in A. Roberts and J. Donaldson, eds. Ante-Nicene Fathers: Volume 3, New York, NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 129-148.

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Bede (trans. J. E. King). 1930. Ecclesiastical History, Volume I: Books 1-3. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

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Celsus (trans. R. J. Hoffman). 1987. On The True Doctrine: A Discourse Against the Christians, New York: Oxford University Press.

 

Eusebius (trans. G. A. Williamson and A. Louth). The History of the Church, London: Penguin Books.

 

Hippolytus (trans. J. H. Macmahon). 1868. ‘The Refutation of All Heresies,’ in A. Roberts and J. Donaldson, eds. Ante-Nicene Christian Library, Vol. VI.: Hippolytus, Bishop of Rome, Vol. 1, Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 5-405.

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Lucian (trans. A. M. Harmon). 1936. ‘The Passing of Peregrinus,’ in Lucian: Volume V, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1-52.​​

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Marcus Aurelius (trans. M. Hammond). 2011. Meditations, London: Penguin Books.

 

Orosius (trans. I. W. Raymond). 1936. The Seven Books of History against the Pagans: The Apology of Paulus Orosius, New York: Columbia University Press.

 

Pliny the Younger (trans. B. Radice). 1967. The Letters of Younger Pliny, London: Penguin.

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Shewring, W. H., trans. 1931. The Passion of SS. Perpetua and Felicity, London: Sheed and Ward.

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Sulpicius Severus (trans. A. Roberts). 1894. ‘Sacred History,’ in P. Schaff and H. Wace, eds. A Select Library of Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, Second Series: Volume XI, New York: Christian Literature Company, 71-122.

 

Tacitus (trans. A. J. Church and W. J. Brodribb). 2003. The Annals & The Histories, New York, NY: Modern Library.

 

Tertullian (trans. S. Thelwall). 1885. ‘Apology,’ in A. Menzies, ed. Ante-Nicene Fathers: Volume 3, Grand Rapids: MI, WM. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 17-55.

 

Webber, W. W., trans. 2024. Dying to Reach God: A New Translation and Commentary on the Writings of St. Ignatius of Antioch and St. Polycarp of Smyrna, Second-Century Christian Martyrs, Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers.

 

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MODERN SCHOLARSHIP

Cooley, Alison E. 2012. The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

 

Cross, F. L. 2005. The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

 

Dalton, O. M. 1901. Catalogue of Early Christian Antiquities and Objects from the Christian East in the Department of British and Medieval Antiquities and Ethnography of the British Museum, London: British Museum Press.

 

DelCogliano, M. 2010. ‘Christianity,’ in M. Gagarin and E. Fantham, eds. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome, Vol. 2, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 103-111.

 

Fernández, G., and José, F. 2005. “La imagen de Hispania y los hispanos a finales de la Antigüedad. Las Historiae Adversum Paganos de Paulo Orosio” [The image of Hispania and the Hispanics at the end of antiquity. The Historiae Adversum Paganos by Paulus Orosius], Conimbriga 44: 281–299.

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Forsythe, G. 2012. “Sol Invictus in the Roman Empire,” in Time in Roman Religion: One thousand years of religious history, New York, NY: Routledge, 133-143.

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Fousek, J., Vojtěch, K., Mertel A., Výtvarová, E., and Chalupa, A. 2018. ‘Spatial constraints on the diffusion of religious innovations: The case of early Christianity in the Roman Empire,’ PLoS ONE 13(12): e0208744.

 

Fox, H. E. 1920. Christian inscriptions in ancient Rome: their message for to-day, London: Morgan and Scott.

 

Foxe, J. 1881. Fox’s Book of Martyrs, or a History of the Lives, Sufferings and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs, Philadelphia, PA: E. Claxton & Company.

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Gauckler P. 1898. “Note sur la découverte d’un caveau funéraire chrétien à Bordj el Youdi (Tunisie) [Note on the discovery of a Christian burial vault in Bordj el Youdi (Tunisia)],” BCTH 137/138: 335-337.

 

Hertling, L. 1944. “Die Zahl der Martyrer bis 313 [The Number of Martyrs up to 313],” Gregorianum 25(1/2): 103-129.

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Howells, Daniel. 2015. A Catalogue of the Late Antique Gold Glass in the British Museum, London: British Museum Press.

 

Kalinowski, A. V. 2017. ‘A Mosaic of Daniel in the Lions’ Den from Borj el Youdi (Furnos Minus) Tunisia: The Iconography of Martyrdom and the Arena in Roman North Africa,’ Antiquités Africaines 53: 115-128.

 

Keresztes, P. 1975. “Two Edicts of the Emperor Valerian,” Vigiliae Christianae 29(2): 81-95.

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Kip, W. M. I. 1859. The Catacombs of Rome, as Illustrating the Church of the First Three Centuries, New York, NY: Daniel Dana.

 

Maitland, C. 1847. The Church in the Catacombs: A Description of the Primitive Church of Rome, Illustrated by its Sepulchral Remains, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, Rev. 2nd Edition.

 

Mondello, G. K. 2004. Roman Martyrology 2004 Complete, in English, Boston Catholic Journal, https://tinyurl.com/3d285nxb.

 

Mounce, R. H. 1998. The Book of Revelation, Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing.

 

Rutgers, L.V. 2000. The Jews in Late Ancient Rome: Evidence of Cultural Interaction in the Roman Diaspora, Leiden: BRILL.

 

Scarre, C. 1995. Chronicle of the Roman Emperors: the reign-by-reign record of the rulers of Imperial Rome, London: Thames & Hudson.

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Stark, R. 1996. The Rise of Christianity: A Sociologist Reconsiders History, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

 

Tuccinardi, E. 2016. ‘Christian Horrors in Pompeii: A New Proposal for the Christianos Graffito,’ JJMJS 3: 61-71.

 

Wayment, T. A., and Grey, M. J. 2015. ‘Jesus Followers in Pompeii: The Christianos Graffito and “Hotel of the Christians” Reconsidered,’ JJMJS 2: 102-146.

 

Young, T. R. 2025. The Alexamenos Graffito: An Early Roman Commentary on Christians and Christianity, Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers.