Free Download The Roman Empire in Crisis, 248-260: When the Gods Abandoned Rome (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CCQL3LH9 | 2023 | 12 hours and 24 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 364 MB
Author: Paul N. Pearson
Narrator: Roger Clark
This book is a narrative history of a dozen years of turmoil that begins with Rome’s millennium celebrations of 248 CE and ends with the capture of the emperor Valerian by the Persians in 260. It was a period of almost unremitting disaster for Rome, involving a series of civil wars, several major invasions by Goths and Persians, economic crisis, and an empire-wide pandemic, the ‘plague of Cyprian’. There was sustained persecution of the Christians. A central theme of the book is that this was a period of moral and spiritual crisis in which the traditional state religion suffered greatly in prestige, paving the way for the eventual triumph of Christianity.
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