here only one letter deals with Christianity or mentions Christ. Moreover, if Christianity had never been perceived as a threat to Roman power, it almost certainly would never have been mentioned by official writers like Tacitus, Suetonius, and Pliny. If it had not become a significant religious movement, it would not have been attacked by philosophers like Lucian and Celsus. As it is, historians like Tacitus and Suetonius held Christianity in disdain, and seem to have written reluctantly about its