The bishop walked slowly around the perimeter of the old Greek temple. It was a magnificent beginning, he thought, but a Christian architect could do so much better.
“We would use these pillars,” Bishop Zosimo said, pointing the rows of stone columns that were set in a rectangle around the Temple of Athena, called the Athenaion by the Greek locals in Siracusa.
“This is a strong structure that will…” he continued before being interrupted.
“Your lordship,” said Penarius, “this is a pagan site. It was built to honor a Greek goddess.”
Zosimo looked at his guide turned interrogator and laughed at his comment.
“It is what I say it is,” Zosimo declared. With a dismissive wave of the hand and his head tossed to the side, the bishop said that since pagan gods did not really exist, the temples
