Richard Carrier, Why Didn’t Pliny Know About the Christians who burned Rome?

Описание: Pliny the Younger’s famous letter to Emperor Trajan in 111 CE has long puzzled historians. In it, Pliny admits he doesn’t really know who Christians are or how to handle them. Yet just a few decades earlier, Tacitus (a friend and contemporary of Pliny) described Nero blaming Christians for the Great Fire of Rome in 64 CE, supposedly punishing them in “immense multitudes.”

So why does Pliny seem completely unaware of this? Shouldn’t an educated Roman statesman — who served as senator, prefect, consul, and even augur — have known about these infamous “Christiani”? Why doesn’t he reference the fire of Rome or Nero’s persecution when writing to Trajan?

In this episode, MythVision explores:

The context of Pliny’s letter and its historical reliability

How Tacitus describes the “Chrestianos” in his Annals (written a few years later)

Why the silence of Pliny (and even Trajan) raises big questions about the size and visibility of early Christians

What this means for understanding the rise of Christianity in the Roman world

Join Derek as we peel back the layers of Roman history, ask the uncomfortable questions, and confront the inconsistencies in the traditional story of Christianity’s early persecution.

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