Paradise Lost Episode 3 - The Ride of The Red Horse

<p>"And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword." - Revelation 6:4</p> <p>The death of Severus Alexander threw Rome into a period of non-stop chaos. Civil wars, Germanic invasions, and a resurgent Perisa threatened to rip the empire to pieces from within and without. In the midst of the chaos, new religions and ways of life took root in the empire. It would take the rise of a new kind of emperor to reforge Rome into something new, something capable of surviving in this brave new world... </p> <p>Myrabella, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons <a href='https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saintes_amphitheatre.jpg'>https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saintes_amphitheatre.jpg</a> </p>