The complete arc of the longest-lived political community in the western tradition told in eighteen chapters: the kings, the Republic, the Punic Wars, the conquest of the Mediterranean, the Gracchi and the civil wars, Caesar and Augustus, the Julio-Claudians and the Flavians, the golden age of the Antonines, the crisis of the third century, Diocletian and Constantine and the Christianization, the fall of the West, Justinian and the Code, Byzantium from Heraclius to the Crusades, and the final fall of Constantinople. Honest, narrative, written for the educated general reader who wants the whole story in one volume. From the founding to 1453, this is the history of Rome in clear American English.
The complete arc of the longest-lived political community in the western tradition told in eighteen chapters: the kings, the Republic, the Punic Wars, the conquest of the Mediterranean, the Gracchi and the civil wars, Caesar and Augustus, the Julio-Claudians and the Flavians, the golden age of th...