According to the Text, as Rome Declined

question 75

Multiple Choice

According to the text, as Rome declined

• A)religious fervor increased.
• B)philosophy "committed suicide" by abandoning the centrality of reason.
• C)the Stoic virtue of dutiful service to humankind declined in favor of a personal quest for individual salvation.
• D)Neo-Platonism replaced Stoicism as the predominant philosophy of the elite.
• E)all of the above

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