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Mishnah Yadayim 4:8

A rabbinic response to Jewish opposition to the inclusion of Roman dating formulae in Jewish divorce documents

Mishnah Yevamot 6:5

The status of female converts and freedwomen in marriage

Optatus of Milevis, Against the Donatists 3.3

“The Church is in the State”

Oration of Constantine XIX

That Christ was predicted by the Sibyl and Virgil

Origen, Against Celsus I.3

The lack of Roman remorse for their treatment of Christians

Origen, Against Celsus II.13

How the Romans destroyed the Temple of Jerusalem to punish the Jews for killing Christ

Origen, Against Celsus II.30

How the unity of nations brought by Roman rule has enabled the spread of the Gospel

Origen, Against Celsus VII.26

The necessity of the updating of the Mosaic law, in accordance with life under Roman rule

Origen, Against Celsus VIII.70

The benefits if the Roman empire were to embrace Christianity

Origen, Commentary on Matthew XIII.10

The image of Caesar and the image of God (Origen’s exegesis of Matthew 17:24-27)

Ovid, Fasti I.1-26

Dedication to Caesar Germanicus

Ovid, Fasti I.527-536

The legacy of the house of Augustus

Ovid, Fasti I.587-616

Octavian receives the title of "Augustus"

Ovid, Fasti II.119-144

Augustus is made pater patriae

Ovid, Fasti III.415-428

Augustus is given the title of High Priest

Ovid, Fasti III.59-78

Rome as the urbs aeterna, the "eternal city"

Ovid, Fasti V.551-578

Mars admires the Forum of Augustus

Ovid, Metamorphoses I.89-112

The Golden Age of Saturn

Ovid, Metamorphoses XIV.805-828

The ascension of Romulus to heaven

Ovid, Metamorphoses XIV.829-851

The ascension of Romulus’s wife Hersilia to heaven

Judaism and Rome