The dream Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar shared of
uniting Europe, the Medi-terranean, and the Middle East in a single
community shuddered and then collapsed in the wars and disasters of
the sixth century. Historian and classicist James J. O'Donnell--who
last brought readers his masterful, disturbing, and revelatory
biography of Saint Augustine--revisits this old story in a fresh
way, bringing home its sometimes painful relevance to today's
issues.
With unexpected detail and in his hauntingly vivid style,
O'Donnell begins at a time of apparent Roman revival and brings
readers to the moment of imminent collapse that just preceded the
rise of Islam. Illegal migrations of peoples, religious wars,
global pandemics, and the temptations of empire: Rome's end
foreshadows today's crises and offers hints how to navigate
them--if present leaders will heed this story.
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