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I've just looked through several pages looking for that tombstone and am not finding it. Can you point me to the page of the thread?

This is great - thanks! I love pursuing these things. Here's the context of Juvenal, Satires 14 : When you expect a guest, not one of your household will be idle. "Sweep the pavement! Polish up the pillars! Down with that dusty spider, web and all! One of you clean the plain silver, another the...

It seems that James Tabor has collected all the references in Josephus to crucifixion here: http://clas-pages.uncc.edu/james-tabor/archaeology-and-the-dead-sea-scrolls/josephus-references-to-crucifixion/ Again, none of them seem to help DC's claim. One of them, indeed, shows a Jewish tendency to tak...

Just glancing at Petronius I see this: However his dancing fit was cut short by the entrance of the historiographer, who read out solemnly, as if he were reciting the public records: "Seventh of Kalends of July (June 25th): On the manor of Cumae, Trimalchio's property, were born this day thirty...

Now I think about it, I do recall Juvenal mentioning crucifixion, in Satire 6 , on bad women: "Crucify that slave!" says the wife. "But what crime worthy of death has he committed? " asks the husband; "where are the witnesses? who informed against him? Give him a hearing at ...

The sources about crucifixion and the practice of leaving bodies on the cross to become carrion come from a multiplicity of contemporaneous ancient authors, including Pliny the Elder, Josephus, Horace, Juvenal, Petronius and others. There are also some corroborating evidence such as inscriptions st...

TedM wrote:IMO there is no such thing as a Christian who doesn't interpret history. The faith requires belief in historical claims.

Certainly Christians have a view on history. But if you're talking with them about history, so do you. So, I would think, does every educated person. Surely?

I don't know myself. But the imperial cult was a state thing. So when Theodosius banned paganism, I imagine it just stopped.

Interesting question.

Didn't Sidonius Apollinaris do likewise?

The sources about crucifixion and the practice of leaving bodies on the cross to become carrion come from a multiplicity of contemporaneous ancient authors, including Pliny the Elder, Josephus, Horace, Juvenal, Petronius and others. There are also some corroborating evidence such as inscriptions st...