In 336, a learned bishop spoke before the first Christian emperor about Christ and Rome …

two mighty powers, starting from the same point, the Roman empire, which henceforth was swayed by a single sovereign, and the Christian religion

Hand in hand…

Homer’s celebration of the fall of Troy was the bible of Greece and the rebuilt city would forever be defined by her forebear’s glorious defeat.

Xerxes visited a modest New Troy on his way to conquer Greece. He would honor Priam, as an Asian king defeated…

Alexander’s letter to his namesake in Byzantium is a long and repetitive statement of the Arian problem. His Catholic Epistle is a more succinct setup for Nicea.

He tries to stop certain readings of the Christian books but his opponents are slippery -…

Theodoret’s Church History is far from objective about the council of Nicea. For him, the devil and his slaves to ambition and vainglory, the Arians, were beaten back by the Orthodox, the great … champion(s) of the truth. Luckily for us, his…

In the Men of Nicea, I wondered why books and now web pages had Athanasius called the Black Dwarf by his enemies. None cited their source and the moniker was absent from ancient histories. A rogue fact was loose, one even…