Rome in the East: Volume Three in the Series ‘The Other Rome’

Tito Kithes Athano

Feb 2014 · Xlibris Corporation

About this ebook

In this history, a mere handful of visionary men pulled Rome back from the brink of a catastrophic civil war, and then fought off assaults by Mithridates the Great and Tigranes the Great. They rescued the Republic and asserted Roman supremacy over Anatolia and Armenia. This story is told in Sulla and Silo, the first book in this series. The second book, Caesar and Sertorius, describes how ruthless diplomacy and military brilliance extended Roman power from the English Channel and Mauritania to the Indus Valley, to create a single State covering more than twice the area of any Empire before it. This greatly expanded Roman Republic now had great opportunities while facing even greater problems. It still had the political structures of the old Roman Republic, but with racial, social, economic and cultural paradigms that would no longer fit into the old moulds. Over the next two centuries the centre of financial, intellectual and cultural dynamism moved irrevocably towards Babylon, but political power remained entrenched in Italy. The pressures of these opposing forces threatened to destroy the Republic from within. This book dramatically recounts the key events of this transformation from Republic to Federation in what came to be called The Transition Age.

About the author

Tito Kithes Athano was Professor of History at Malitora University, until an equipment failure returned him to our timeline instead of his own alternate universe. This historically accurate but very readable book was written with the aid of a huge library of scholarly research stored on his personal touchboard. Send comments and questions to him at [e-mail] and read the question-and-answer posts on his Facebook page Tito Kithes Athano.