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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. Book of the Month Club. hardcover. Book VG: touch of shelf wear to boards and spine, touch of foxing to endpapers, text clean, binding tight./DJ VG-: age/soil, small chips, not clipped. 8vo 799pp. from front flap: "In the year A.D. 242, the young Roman Emperor Gordian III, preparing to march east to defend the imperial boundaries, paid public homage to the gods by ordering a new athletic festival in honor of Athena. It was a logical step--worship of Athena and the other pagan gods had been going on uninterruptedly for at least a thousand years. Yet, no more than a lifetime later, when another Roman Emperor set out on a similar expedition to the eastern frontier, he scorned Athena's protection. Constantine and his troops marched under the Sign of the Cross. With stunning suddenness, Christianity had emerged at the center of the Mediterranean world." #02158 HEAVY ITEM WILL REQUIRE EXTRA S/H.