Rome and Persia: The Seven
Hundred Year Rivalry
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The Eagle and The Lion is a story of the imperial
rivalry between two of the greatest empires of
the ancient world ? how they rose and
eventually fell.The Roman empire shaped the
culture of the western world against which all
other great powers are compared. Stretching
from the north of Britain to the Sahara, and from
the Atlantic coast to the Euphrates, it imposed
peace and prosperity on an unprecedented
scale. However, the exception lay in the east,
where the Parthian and then Persian empires
ruled over great cities and the trade routes to
mysterious lands beyond. This was the place
Alexander the Great had swept through,
creating a dream of glory and conquest which
tantalised Greeks and Romans alike. Caesar,
Mark Antony and a long succession of
emperors longed to follow in Alexander's
footsteps. All failed. Only here did the Roman
empire slow down and eventually stop
because it was unable to go any
further.Following seven centuries of conflict that
ultimately, neither Rome nor
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