Description: The period AD 300-600 saw huge changes. The Graeco-Roman city-state was first transformed then eclipsed. Much of the Roman Empire broke up and was reconfigured. New barbarian kingdoms emerged in the Roman West. Above all, religious culture moved from polytheistic to monotheistic.
Brief description: Stephen Mitchell is the author of Anatolia. Land, Men and Gods in Asia Minor; Cremna in Pisidia and Pisidian Antioch. Geoffrey Greatrex is the author of Rome and Persia at War, 502-532.