Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an EmpireRandom House, 30 set 2010 - 448 pagine This is the story of the greatest empire the world has ever known. Simon Baker charts the rise and fall of the world's first superpower, focusing on six momentous turning points that shaped Roman history. Welcome to Rome as you've never seen it before - awesome and splendid, gritty and squalid. |
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... young female guests . This so- called ' Rape of the Sabine Women ' has appealed to writers and artists ever since as a story of violence , lust and hard - headed polit- ical expediency . We have no idea how much of this lurid tale is ...
... young Christian girl converting her young pagan boyfriend , and taking him with her to a noble but gory death ( usually involving lions ) . Many of these stories are versions of a best - selling novel , Quo Vadis , by the Polish writer ...
... young Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus was related to three of the great aristo- cratic dynasties of the Roman republic . Together , in the space of less than a hundred and fifty years , these families had led the way in turning the ...
... young Tiberius take not the side of his own family and the aristocratic élite , but the side of the poor . After the funeral the wax masks of the elder Gracchus and his ancestors were laid in a shrine in the family home . They would ...
... young Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus was related to the three interconnected families who had blazed a trail during the great period of Roman expansion : the Sempronii Gracchi through his father , and both the Cornelii Scipiones and the ...
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CAESAR | 101 |
Augustus | 155 |
NERO | 184 |
REBELLION | 242 |
Hadrian | 290 |
CONSTANTINE | 312 |
FALL | 369 |
Notes | 419 |
Acknowledgements | 435 |