Colin Elliott has written a model account of one of the great catastrophes to strike the ancient world: the Antonine Plague that swept the Roman world between 165 and the 180s, killing millions. The ...

Pox Romana: The Plague That Shook the Roman World Colin Elliott 328 pages; Princeton University Press $32.00 ...

Thoughtful, Independent, ProgressiveComing Out Christian in the Roman World, by Douglas Boin The "Fall of Rome...is not a historical event; it's more akin to a theological idea." So proclaims Douglas ...

Pox Romana: The Plague That Shook the Roman World Colin Elliott. Princeton Univ, $32 (328p) ISBN 978-0-691-21915-8 ...