Fun fact.
In 393 CE, Emperor Theodosius I banned the Greek Olympics due to the religious element of the celebration. He considered the Olympics to be a pagan festival, which had no place in his Christian empire.
As a consequence, the games were cancelled and didn’t start up again for over 1,400 years, until 1896. 
More fun facts …
Christian’s used pagan idols to convince pagans to join their churches
The Darkening Age: The Destruction of the Classical World by Catherine Nixey is great on this era. Early Christian were essentially ISIS; they set out to obliterate everything that came before, plunged the world into the dark ages, and killed anyone who didn’t agree with them.
