BIBLIOGRAPHY: The history of the destruction of paganism is a subject that
has tempted many historians. Beugnot (1835), Lasaulx (1854), Schulze (Jena,
1887-1892) have tried it with varying success (see Wissowa, _Religion der
Römer_, pp. 84 ff.). But hardly any one has been interested in the
reconstruction of the theology of the last pagans, although material is not
lacking. The meritorious studies of Gaston Boissier (_La fin du Paganisme_,
Paris, 1891) treat especially the literary and moral aspects of that great
transformation. Allard (_Julien l'Apostat_, I, 1900, p. 39 ff.) has
furnished a summary of the religious evolution during the fourth century.