The First 2000 Years

From back cover: In rare and readable didactic verse, author John Carey reviews "The First 2000 Years" since the birth of Christ. Decades march past shrewdly and poetically, as the author highlights history from a religious and cultural perspective. Emperors and barbarians, scientists and theologians all throng the highway of history, while interacting in the incremental divisions of fifty years that the author gives to each poem, with a total of forty verses. We read of Tacitus and Marcus Aurelius, and how "Ptolemy screwed things up for 1300 years by proving Earth, thus Rome the center of the universe." "The first 2000 Years" encapsulates history in spirited verse.