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Examines those moments in Hellenic and Roman history, which while seminal for the West, were unable to compete with Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and Mysticism and that became icons for Russia into the twentieth century.
INTRODUCTIONWHAT OF OUR BEGINNINGS: A STIRRINGGEOGRAPHY AND HISTORIC DEVELOPMENT; HELLAS: THE ROOTS OF WESTERN CULTURE THAT RUSSIA MIGHT HAVE SHARED, IF IT SO CHOSEPERSIATHE WORLD OF THE HELLENES: INSPIRATION THAT PROMPTED THE GOLDEN AGETHE GOLDEN AGEHELLAS: A NEW POWER IN THE MEDITERRANEAN: ATHENS AND SPARTA, BRILLIANCE AND SUICIDEATHENS: IMPERIALISMEXPLOITATION AND DEMOCRACY: THE EVOLUTION OF ATHENSARE THESES EXPERIENCES OF HELLENES OF VALUE TO RUSSIA AS IT PLANS FOR THE FUTURE?SPARTA: THE STAND AGAINST ATHENS: FROM ALLIES TO ENEMIESPHILOSOPHY: THE HELLENIC PURSUIT THAT RUSSIA WOULD REJECTMACEDONIA: PHILIP AND ALEXANDERTHE GREATS: ALEXANDER AND PETERAN AGE OF THE INDIVIDUALOTHER EXAMPLES THAT EXEMPLIFY THE WESTTHE WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN: ROME EMERGESETRUSCANSROMETHE ROMAN REPUBLICTHE MIDDLE REPUBLIC: 264 BCE–133 BCE: RECORDS ARE EXTANTA WORLD OF PARALLELSTHE SECOND PUNIC WAR 218 BCE–202 BCE: THE FUTURE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION WILL BE DECIDEDTHE OUTCOME OF THE SECOND PUNIC WARROME: THE TURBULENCE IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN DRAWS ROME’S ATTENTIONCOMPARISON: ROME AND RUSSIA: NATIONS IN TRANSITIONSEEDS OF CIVIL UNREST: SLAVERY AND SERFDOM, ROME AND RUSSIATHE AFTERMATHJULIUS CAESAR, OCTAVIAN, AND PETER THE GREATSELECT BIBLIOGRAPHYMONOGRAPHS