{"product_id":"the-darkening-age-the-christian-destruction-of-the-classica","title":"The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classica","description":"\n        \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0544800885\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Nixey, Catherine\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e new\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eA New York Times Notable Book of 2018Searingly passionateNixey writes up a storm. Each sentence is rich, textured, evocative, felt[A] ballista-bolt of a book. -New York Times Book ReviewIn Harran, the locals refused to convert. They were dismembered, their limbs hung along the towns main street. In Alexandria, zealots pulled the elderly philosopher-mathematician Hypatia from her chariot and flayed her to death with shards of broken pottery. Not long before, their fellow Christians had invaded the citys greatest temple and razed it-smashing its world-famous statues and destroying all that was left of Alexandrias Great Library.Today, we refer to Christianitys conquest of the West as a triumph. But this victory entailed an orgy of destruction in which Jesuss followers attacked and suppressed classical culture, helping to pitch Western civilization into a thousand-year-long decline. Just one percent of Latin literature would survive the purge; countless antiquities, artworks, and ancient traditions were lost forever.As Catherine Nixey reveals, evidence of early Christians campaign of terror has been hiding in plain sight: in the palimpsests and shattered statues proudly displayed in churches and museums the world over. In The Darkening Age, Nixey resurrects this lost history, offering a wrenching account of the rise of Christianity and its terrible cost.\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n        ","brand":"Miakarts Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49680213770480,"sku":"sku-51305097494816","price":60.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/ethereallybeautiful.com\/products\/the-darkening-age-the-christian-destruction-of-the-classica","provider":"Ethereally Beautiful","version":"1.0","type":"link"}