![]() Mutual assistance between the Western and the Eastern Roman Empire against barbarian invasions preserved both from falling and kept Roman rule intact throughout the imperial dominions.ĭespite the absence of Christianity, which, in our history, considerably influenced early Islam, Muhammad still started his prophetic career but was assassinated by a perceptive Roman agent, nipping Islam in the bud and thus precluding the spread of any monotheistic religion through the Roman Empire. Still, affairs of the larger world and the rise and fall of empires and cultures remained roughly the same as in our history until the division of the Roman Empire, which was never Christianised in this history. Later, the Hebrews were freed from bondage and remained a distinct religious-ethnic minority in Egypt, practicing a monotheistic religion, up to the equivalent of our 20th century (the 27th century of the Roman calendar). Moses and many of the Israelites drowned, and the remnant, led by Aaron, were fetched back to slavery in Egypt, a traumatic event recorded for posterity in the Book of Aaron, an alternate version of the Bible. The point of divergence is the failure of the Israelite Exodus from Egypt. Each of the ten chapters was first published as a short story, six of them in Asimov's Science Fiction, between 19. Sometimes we even publish articles with which we totally disagree, since we believe it is important for our readers to be informed on as wide a spectrum of views as possible.Roma Eterna is a science fiction fixup novel by American writer Robert Silverberg, published in 2003, which presents an alternative history in which the Roman Empire survives to the present day. Our policy is to publish anything which we consider of interest, so as to assist our readers in forming their opinions. We remind our readers that publication of articles on our site does not mean that we agree with what is written. In Christ, Emperor and Autocrat of the Romans ![]() ![]() (Rome undefeated, eternal Rome, Rome capital of the world) ![]() Roma invicta, Roma aeterna, Roma caput mundi (To him who defeated great kings, Aleluiah!) Also the Latin pronunciation is all over the place, I think I just wasn’t focused enough on that day, so some phrases retain Classical Pronunciation and others use Ecclesiastical. I later remembered that this pronunciation was already extinct by the 3rd century A.D, so keep that anachronism in mind, it’s not accurate to any Byzantine era. A pretty major anachronistic mistake I made however is in the phrase: ἐν Χριστῷ τῷ Θεῷ, πιστός βασιλεὺς καὶ αὐτοκράτωρ Ῥωμαῖων (en Christó tó Theó, pistós vasilèfs kaí aftokrátor Romaíon)–I’ve been delving a little too long into Classical Greek literature and pronunciation, and so my natural reflex was to pronounce “Romaíon” as it “Romayion,” which is how it was pronounced in the Classical era of Socrates and Pericles. I don’t claim any authenticity with this piece beyond a very general Greek and Byzantine “vibe,” nothing more.įor the pronunciation, I tried doing some research to reproduce the pronunciation of very Late Antiquity to Early Byzantine times–the “x” sound in “pataxadi” would have likely been a mix of “kz” instead of “ks”, and the “ντ” cluster would have been pronounced literally as it is written, as a combination of “n” and “t” pronounced together instead of the modern hard “d” sound that you get in Modern Greek I won’t vouch for the utter certainty of that claim though, I might have been wrong. Please take note that this isn’t actual Byzantine music, nor does it seek to be–it’s modern “Epic” music which mixes a “film soundtrack” style with Modern Greek musical language to produce an image of Byzantine civilisation, not a reconstructive work. They were founded in the 9th century and ended in the 11th. The Hikanatoi were an elite section of the Byzantine army based near Constantinople.
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