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.
罗马帝国的成功令人惊叹,失败也影响深远。它是成功的,因为它将整个地中海世界及其腹地,将那片从泰恩河到底格里斯河,从尼罗河到直布罗陀海峡的广阔土地都统一到了同一个政治、经济的体制之下。它的统治延续了许多个世纪,它的遗产更是影响后世。200 多年前,爱德华·吉本写...
评分卢梭说过一句话:“当古罗马和斯巴达都灭亡了,还有什么国家能永世长存!” 说起罗马帝国,我们脑海中闪现过的总离不开如下画面:罗马大斗兽场、君士坦丁凯旋门、圣索菲亚大教堂、罗马万神庙。或者,我们想起了那些才华横溢的诗人们:维吉尔、贺拉斯、奥维德。再或者,我们眼前...
评分“那些衰落中的帝国已经丧失了自知之明,它们会挣扎着靠剩下的力量来维护自己,从而无可救药地削弱自己;那些宗教团体也会曲解对宿命的信仰,为种种不可理喻、出离想象的行为寻找借口。”新年钟声敲响之际,发生在土耳其的恐怖袭击事件像是詹姆斯﹒奥唐奈此言的注脚。以后见之...
评分“那些衰落中的帝国已经丧失了自知之明,它们会挣扎着靠剩下的力量来维护自己,从而无可救药地削弱自己;那些宗教团体也会曲解对宿命的信仰,为种种不可理喻、出离想象的行为寻找借口。”新年钟声敲响之际,发生在土耳其的恐怖袭击事件像是詹姆斯﹒奥唐奈此言的注脚。以后见之...
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