The Last Olympiad

<h4><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Serapeum destroyed the emperor murdered pagans raise a revolt!</strong></h4><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The 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 of the Last Olympic Games of Antiquity (AD389-AD393). Here they are debating topics ranging from the moral consequences of bathing and chariot races to national character and demon possession:</span></p><ul><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: var(--__N4QdCheV6mGo#0f1111)>the zany crafty and weird doctors of the Church: Ambrose Jerome and Augustine</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: var(--__N4QdCheV6mGo#0f1111)>the caustic and dysphoric historian Ammianus Marcellinus</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: var(--__N4QdCheV6mGo#0f1111)>three fanatic historians of the Church</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: var(--__N4QdCheV6mGo#0f1111)>the grumpy rhetorician Libanius</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: var(--__N4QdCheV6mGo#0f1111)>the blood-thirsty scholar-defenders of the Alexandrian Serapeum</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: var(--__N4QdCheV6mGo#0f1111)>the author of a rabid anti-Christian diatribe which somehow miraculously survived to our times (</span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: var(--__N4QdCheV6mGo#0f1111)>The Lives of Sophists</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: var(--__N4QdCheV6mGo#0f1111)>)</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: var(--__N4QdCheV6mGo#0f1111)>and the quirky and mysterious figure of Jorge Luis Borges of ancient Rome (</span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: var(--__N4QdCheV6mGo#0f1111)>Authors of Imperial History</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: var(--__N4QdCheV6mGo#0f1111)>)</span></li></ul><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Quoting 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.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Aleksander 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.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A classicist's delight!</strong></p><h4><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Pick up your copy today!</strong></h4><p></p>