Среди многочисленных обсуждений этого термина см.: Pierre Chuvin, A Chronicle of the Last Pagans, trans. B. A. Archer (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990),
7-13; Christopher Jones, Between Pagan and Christian (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014), 5–8; James J. O’Donnell, Pagans: The End of Traditional Religion and the Rise of Christianity (New York: Ecco, 2015), 159-64.