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by TrapLord_Rhodo 405 days ago
You are right.

it's just that the romans themselves had an identity crisis of "pagan" vs. "monothestic". So yes, you are right to call out the fact that situating it in the christian context would be follie.

But the original point still stands. Calling it pagan is still a correct classification of the works in the library.

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Christianity didn't even really exist at that point, if would have been a minor cult.

So it doubly makes no sense.

It is definitely not correct, it's the equivalent of calling the ruins Italian instead of Roman.