Rom und der Orient

REICH WITHOUT BORDERS - THE FIRST GREAT HISTORY OF THE ROMAN ORIENT "To the Romans I set neither spatial nor temporal limits, an empire without end I have given them." In Virgil's Aeneid, no less a figure than Jupiter, the father of the gods, promises his "chosen people" such a brilliant future in a boundless empire. What natural spaces the Romans traversed in the Orient during the conquest of their world empire, what peoples, empires and rulers they encountered, what religions and cultures, some of them ancient, they encountered, and what art and technology amazed them - this book tells the story in a fact-filled and vivid way.
Hardly anyone knows the history of the advanced civilisations east of the Mediterranean as well as the Zurich historian Christian Marek. With his latest book, he presents a masterly, richly illustrated synthesis of his decades of research in Asia Minor, Syria and Arabia. He recounts the prehistory of these regions of the world from the early advanced cultures of the Orient to the spread of Hellenism, describes Rome's conflicts with potentates such as Mithradates VI and peoples such as Parthians and Jews, and explains the institutions and techniques of Roman rule as well as the penetration of foreign cultures with the Roman way of life. Finally, he traces the history of the rise and spread of Christianity in the eastern half of the Imperium Romanum until the rise of Islam. An account the like of which has never been seen before!
The great comprehensive accountFrom the Babylonians to Pompey - the influence of Roman rule in Asia MinorConquerors and resistance fightersEx oriente lux: philosophy, literature, science.