PAX: War and Peace in Rome’s Golden Age (Extract)
Books Mentioned
“A decade later, when he embarked on a fantasy novel called a Game of Thrones, his visit to Hadrian's wall was to prove a particularly vivid influence.”
“So wrote St. John in Revelation, the last book of the New Testament, sometime during the late 1st century AD. John's vision ranks as an apocalypse, a parting of the curtain that veiled from mortal gaze events that were yet to come.”
“My goal in writing Pax has been at all times to show the inhabitants of the Roman world the respect due to all ancient peoples, by attempting to understand them not on our terms, but on their own.”
“We have a detailed narrative account of the revolt and its causes, written not by a Roman, but by a Judean, and a Judean, what is more, who played a significant role in the conflict.”
“The first, Rubicon, tells the story of Julius Caesar and his age, the second, Dynasty, that of Augustus, Rome's first emperor, and the line of rulers who claimed descent from him.”
“The first, Rubicon, tells the story of Julius Caesar and his age, the second, Dynasty, that of Augustus, Rome's first emperor, and the line of rulers who claimed descent from him.”