{"product_id":"the-darkening-age-the-christian-destruction-of-the-classical-world-0544800885","title":"The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0544800885\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Nixey, Catherine\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\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","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51525316182304,"sku":"NEW0544800885","price":72.83,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/81FBcB_-9lL_5a1fd583-1c1e-4a19-b6ef-714c28ba1c1e.jpg?v=1777147796","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/the-darkening-age-the-christian-destruction-of-the-classical-world-0544800885","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}