Mike Levy wrote
Schwartz's degree, I think, is in Byzantine history.
I believe so: but I found her trilogy beginning with 'Byzantium's Crown'
rather weird in its extrapolations. If Antony and Cleopatra had won the battle
of Actium (which I think was the premise) there didn't seem to me to be any
logical reason for the rise of Byzantium as an imperial capital in the first
place, with a Romano-Egyptian Empire running along a Rome-Alexandria axis.
Plus, while I can see that Christianity, in this alternative universe, would
probably not have become a state religion, as far as I can remember (it is
some years since I read the books) it (and possibly Judaism as well?) were
totally absent.
Lesley
Lesley_Hall@classic.msn.com
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