Abstract
Abstract The Acta Martyrum are documents that figure prominently among the abundant evidence of persecutions of Christians in Antiquity (including pagan evidence as well as Christian sources such as church histories, homilies, and panegyrics) because of their historical value as direct contemporaneous information ( acta sincera ). Chronologically these texts deal with events situated from the middle of the second century ce onwards, concentrating on the time of Decius, who is considered to have been the first ruler to have “systematically” persecuted Christians (about 250 ce ), as well as in the period of the “great persecution” inaugurated about 303 ce by Diocletian.
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