The Ruin of the Roman Empire

“A learned and often visceral account of how the Mediterranean ceased to be Roman, which serves simultaneously as charge sheet and lament.” —Tom Holland, award-winning author of Dominion The dream Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar shared of uniting Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Middle East in a single community shuddered and then collapsed in the wars and disasters of the sixth century. Historian and classicist James J. O'Donnell—who last brought readers his masterful, disturbing, and r