Not immediately, though.
Celsus writing towards the end of the 2d century is the first Greco-Roman writer to mention anyone named "Jesus." Even Lucian of Samosata, some 20 years earlier heard the tale of the shitwits worshipping a crucified criminal but he never mentions the name.
Suetonius, Tacitus ( if not a total forgery ) and Pliny the Younger mention Christus.... or more probably "Chrestus" but none of them ever heard of this jesus guy. Suetonius, the youngest of the three died in 130, some 50 years before Celsus.
This suggests that the addition of "jesus" to the story is a second-century rewrite.
Celsus writing towards the end of the 2d century is the first Greco-Roman writer to mention anyone named "Jesus." Even Lucian of Samosata, some 20 years earlier heard the tale of the shitwits worshipping a crucified criminal but he never mentions the name.
Suetonius, Tacitus ( if not a total forgery ) and Pliny the Younger mention Christus.... or more probably "Chrestus" but none of them ever heard of this jesus guy. Suetonius, the youngest of the three died in 130, some 50 years before Celsus.
This suggests that the addition of "jesus" to the story is a second-century rewrite.
