Re-reading Gibbon's Decline as you can tell.
I don't know who the editor is in this edition; for some reason it isn't disclosed but he made a nice point in the footnotes:
"...in most savage times, and the most corrupt courts, since the introduction of Christianity there have been no Neros or Domitians, no Commodus or Elagabalus."
Rome and Christianity - indeed, the West and Christianity - makes for quite interesting reading.
So full of contradictions, misunderstandings, blood and glory.
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