Re: martyrs redux

Not entirely based on emperor worship. Pliny's letter (10.96 to Trajan)
says that he acquitted all who ... et imaginem tuam deorumque simulacra
venerati sunt et Christo male dixerunt. This suggests three possible
"tests" and I suppose that any one of them would do.

LLH

On Friday, April 30, 2004, at 06:06 AM, David Meadows wrote:

> Greetings,
>
>   No ... this isn't about some sort of Christian zombie thing, but is
>   picking up on our martyrdom thread of a few weeks ago. Today is the
>   feast day of Maximus, who, we are told, was executed in Ephesus when
>   he wouldn't sacrifice to Diana. Now I was under the impression that
>   the whole persecution thing was based on not sacrificing to the
>   emperor ... do we have other martyrs who were martyred for not
>   sacrificing to rather more traditional ancient divinities?
>
> regards,
>
> dm
>
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