Page "Orosius" Paragraph 52

Orosius uses the so-called " succession of the four world empires theory " throughout his works, which traced world history based on the premise that out of the ruins of one great civilization another arose.

Therefore, his theory was based on four historical empires, Babylonia, pagan Rome, Macedonia and Carthage, with a fifth empire, that of Christian Rome as the inheritor of all these.

In fact, during the narration of their histories the four empires develop in the same way and there are a number of striking parallels between them that are markedly different from Rome, which Orosius praises.