Decline of Greco-Roman polytheism
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Religion in the Greco-Roman world at the time of the Constantinian shift mostly comprised three main currents:
- the traditional religions of ancient Greece and Rome;
- the official Roman imperial cult;
- various mystery religions, such as the Eleusinian Mysteries and the mystery cults of Cybele, Mithras, and the syncretized Isis.
Early Christianity grew gradually in Rome and the Roman Empire from the 1st to 4th centuries, when it was legalized and, in its Nicene form became the state church of the Roman Empire with the Edict of Thessalonica of 380. Hellenistic polytheistic traditions survived in pockets of Greece throughout Late Antiquity. The Neoplatonic Academy was shut down by Justinian I in 529, a date sometimes taken to mark the end of Classical Antiquity.
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See also
- Christianity and paganism
- Christianization
- Constantinian shift
- Damascius
- Early Christianity
- Hellenistic Judaism
- Hellenistic religion
- Historical persecution by Christians
- Late Antiquity
- Mithraism
- Neoplatonism and Christianity
- Persecution of pagans by the Christian Roman Empire
- Pseudo-Dionysius
- Roman imperial cult
- Roman polytheistic reconstructionism
- Christianization
- Christianity and other religions
- Christianity and paganism
- Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire
- Religious policies of Constantine the Great
- Religious policies of Constantius II
- Persecution of pagans in the late Roman Empire
- Persecution of pagans under Theodosius I
- Anti-paganism policies of the early Byzantine Empire
- Restoration of paganism from Julian until Valens
- Revival of Roman paganism
- History of Christianity
- Christianity and violence
- History of Christian thought on persecution and tolerance
- Timeline of Christianity
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