# Public-domain Lactantius translations reprint the Christian demolition of Epicurean gods

Date: 1871

## The fact

Nineteenth-century English Ante-Nicene sets, including public-domain Lactantius, reprint the attack on Epicurean idle gods as moral ruin. The dated carrier is that Victorian translation industry, not a 300 CE autograph.

## Context

Confessional demolition made atomism a banned heading in Latin schools for centuries. Polarisation is the path. Do not store a body-count of burned Epicureans without a named court.

[Epicurus](/people/epicurus) is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

## Evidence and sources

Official edition, museum, archive, or agency page and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Britannica — Epicurus (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Epicurus; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

A printed heresy-brief is a durable exclusion tool against a named school.

A printed heresy-brief is a durable exclusion tool against a named school.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

## People

- Epicurus: https://factrail.ai/people/epicurus

## Drivers

- Political Polarization: https://factrail.ai/drivers/political-polarization

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Epicurus
- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epicurus/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ep-christian-polemic-lactantius