- genre:history, Roman Empire, Persian Empire, Late Antiquity
A vivid and detailed history of the Near East during late antiquity, culminating in the rise of Islam
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and epic.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Tom Holland
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 526
- Publisher
- Anchor, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Anchor Books
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780385531368
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Tom Holland is an award-winning historian, biographer and broadcaster. He is the author of Rubicon: The Triumph and the Tragedy of the Roman Republic, which won the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize; Persian Fire his history of the Graeco-Persian wars, won the Anglo-Hellenic League’s Runciman Award in 2006; Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom, a panoramic account of the two centuries on either side of the apocalyptic year 1000; In the Shadow of the Sword, which covers the collapse of Roman and Persian power in the Near East, and the emergence of Islam; and Dynasty, a portrait of Rome's first imperial dynasty.
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