History of RomeScribner's, 1978 - 537 pagine From a small Iron Age settlement on the banks of the Tiber, Rome grew to become the center of an Empire that dominated the Western world. Powerful in war, Rome was magnificent in peace, so that even today her poets, artists, philosophers and historians exert their influence over Western thought and civilization. Michael Grant, the renowned classical historian, recreates the evolution of this astonishing city and community. He describes the individuals and events that made Rome a political and cultural conqueror, and defines the dramatic circumstances of her eventual decline and fall.- Publisher description. |
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... army across the Rhone , and then in the early autumn he crossed the Alps . The mountains were treacherous going because of premature falls of snow , but Rome's belief that they would stop an army from getting through proved mistaken ...
... army across the Rhone , and then in the early autumn he crossed the Alps . The mountains were treacherous going because of premature falls of snow , but Rome's belief that they would stop an army from getting through proved mistaken ...
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... army to these unprecedented dimensions because he knew that a big and permanent change had taken place ; ever since the frontier crisis of Marcus Aurelius , imperial defense had become a far graver problem than ever before . Besides ...
... army to these unprecedented dimensions because he knew that a big and permanent change had taken place ; ever since the frontier crisis of Marcus Aurelius , imperial defense had become a far graver problem than ever before . Besides ...
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... army was now divided . This was the mobile field force ; divided into four formations , one for each ruler , these comitatenses ( " soldiers of the retinue " ) included a certain proportion of infantry , but cavalry was their particular ...
... army was now divided . This was the mobile field force ; divided into four formations , one for each ruler , these comitatenses ( " soldiers of the retinue " ) included a certain proportion of infantry , but cavalry was their particular ...
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IV | 85 |
THE FALL OF THE REPUBLIC | 167 |
CAESAR AND AUGUSTUS | 211 |
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