Suetonius on Christians
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The Roman historian Suetonius mentions early Christians and may refer to Jesus Christ in his work Lives of the Twelve Caesars. One passage in the biography of the Emperor Claudius Divus Claudius 25, r
A 1540 copy of Lives of the Twelve Caesars by Suetonius
A coin issued by Emperor Nerva (AD 96–98) reads fisci Judaici calumnia sublata, "abolition of malicious prosecution in connection with the Jewish tax"
Claudius statue, Louvre
Pliny the Younger, the Roman governor of Bithynia and Pontus, wrote a letter to Emperor Trajan around AD 110 and asked for counsel on dealing with the early Christian community. The letter details an
Fragment of an inscription bearing the name Pliny, Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio, Milan
Depiction of Christian Eucharistic bread, Catacomb of Callixtus, 3rd century
Trajan statue, Glyptothek, Munich
Letters of Pliny the Younger, Paris, 1826 (Click to read)