Persecution of early Christians

Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus ( ; born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus; 15 December AD 37 – 9 June AD 68) was a Roman emperor and the final emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, reigning from AD 54 until his suicide in AD 68.

Roman religious persecution of Christians

(303-313) last and most severe persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire

Christian persecution resulting from Roman edict (249–251)

persecution of Christians in Lugdunum, Gaul (c.177)

Permitted religion in ancient Roman law

correspondence between Roman governor Pliny the Younger and Roman emperor Trajan

Rothesteus (flourished in 4th century), also known as Rothesteos, Rothestes, also Radistis was a Gothic sub-king under the Thervingian chieftain Athanaric. He was the father of Atharid, who played a leading role in the killing of the Christian martyr Sabbas.

Persecuted of Christians for their heterodox beliefs by a Jewish establishment in what was then the Roman province of Judea

Religious persecution in the Roman Empire

Gothic persecution of Christians in the third century

leader in the 484 Samaritan revolt

Atharid (flourished in 4th century AD) was a Gothic chieftain under the Thervingian leader Athanaric. He was the son of Athanaric's sub-king Rothesteus, and played a leading role in the killing of the Christian saint Sabbas the Goth.