The Serapeum destroyed, the emperor murdered, pagans raise a revolt! 
A turning point in history, the six years 389-395 AD in the Roman Empire saw many dramatic, historical events: the destruction of the temple of Serapis in Alexandria the first excommunication of an emperor ever the first murder of an emperor at the hands of his Germanic bodyguards (many more to come) an imperial edict prohibiting all practice of any and all pagan religions the last significant rebellion of pagans against Christian rule the end of the 1200 years of the Olympic tradition\nThe best-selling European author of books on Graeco-Roman antiquity paints a rich and highly readable panorama of the intellectual life of the Roman Empire of the period. Here they are, debating topics ranging from the moral consequences of bathing and chariot races to national character and demon possession: the zany, crafty, and weird doctors of the Church: Ambrose, Jerome, and Augustine the caustic and dysphoric historian Ammianus Marcellinus three fanatic historians of the Church the grumpy rhetorician Libanius the blood-thirsty scholar-defenders of the Alexandrian Serapeum the author of a rabid anti-Christian diatribe which somehow miraculously survived to our times (The Lives of Sophists) and the quirky and mysterious figure of "Jorge Luis Borges of ancient Rome" (Authors of Imperial History)\nQuoting richly from various curious, entertaining, and beautiful texts from the period, Professor Krawczuk gives us a broad intellectual survey of the Roman Empire and its leading personalities at the time of the last revolt of the ancient gods.\nAleksander Krawczuk (1922-2023) was a scholar, a professor at the Jagiellonian University, a minister of culture, and a best-selling European author of books on Graeco-Roman antiquity with an international cult following. His intimate and conversational style allowed him to talk about complicated subjects in an accessible way without dumbing them down in the process. His books remain in print in many languages across Europe. And now they finally appear in English.\n"A classicist's delight!" Pick up your copy today!

The Last Olympiad: Twilight of Antiquity (Aleksander's Antiquities)

Biographies & Memoirs

Krawczuk, Aleksander

Arts & Literature

Mondrala Press

Titus and Berenice: Jews, Romans, Revolt, and a Love in the time of War (Aleksander's Antiquities)

History

Ancient Civilizations

Herod King of the Jews (Aleksander's Antiquities)

Middle East

Before the Trojan War, there was the Theban War.\nTo the heroes beneath the walls of Troy, the heroes of the Theban War were peerless and unattainable role models.\nDiomedes, son of Tydeus, so prayed to his goddess Athena:\nHear me, o daughter of Zeus! Stand by me, as you had once stood by my father, divine Tydeus, when he went to Thebes!\nAnd King Agamemnon jeered him:\nWoe to thee, son of brave Tydeus, the horse-tamer! Why do you tremble with fear? Why do you glance around, looking for a route of escape? Your father Tydeus was not wont to retreat in fear when he led bronze-clad Argives against the walls of Thebes!\nWhat was the Theban War? Who fought it? What remains of the Homeric epics which described it? What can archeology tell us?\nAleksander Krawczuk's books on Greece and Rome have shaped three generations of antique lovers in Europe.\nThey have been huge best-sellers because of their unassuming style: reading him feels like taking part in a pleasant chat after a nice dinner by the fireside, with a glass of sherry in hand.\nHis topics are important and may at first seem forbidding, but the good professor finds a way to talk about them in an unassuming way without dumbing them down in the process.\nPick up this book today and escape into... intelligent pleasure.

Seven Against Thebes: Myth and History (Aleksander's Antiquities)

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Seven Against Thebes: Reflections on the Historical Tradition (Aleksander's Antiquities)

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