Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ BBC Physical Audio; Illustrated edition (July 3, 2007)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 448 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1846072840
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1846072840

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That is the story of the best empire the world has ever recognized. Simon Baker charts the rise and fall of the world’s first superpower, specializing in six momentous turning factors that formed Roman historical past. Welcome to Rome as you’ve by no means seen it earlier than – superior and splendid, gritty and squalid.

From the conquest of the Mediterranean starting within the third century BC to the destruction of the Roman Empire by the hands of barbarian invaders some seven centuries later, we uncover essentially the most crucial episodes in Roman historical past: the spectacular collapse of the ‘free’ republic, the delivery of the age of the ‘Caesars’, the violent suppression of the strongest riot towards Roman energy, and the bloody civil conflict that launched Christianity as a world faith.

On the coronary heart of this account are the dynamic, complicated however flawed characters of a few of the strongest rulers in historical past: males reminiscent of Pompey the Nice, Julius Caesar, Augustus, Nero and Constantine. Placing flesh on the bones of those distant, legendary figures, Simon Baker appears to be like past the dusty, toga-clad caricatures and explores their actual motivations and ambitions, intrigues and rivalries.

The excellent narrative, stuffed with vitality and creativeness, is a superb distillation of the newest scholarship and a splendidly evocative account of Historic Rome.