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Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of An Empire

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Description for Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of An Empire paperback. Focusing on six momentous turning points that helped to shape Roman history, this work charts the rise and fall of the world's first superpower - a political machine unmatched in its brutality, its genius, its lust for power. It also covers powerful men such as Pompey the Great, Julius Caesar, Augustus, Nero and Constantine. Num Pages: 448 pages, 32. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 129 x 29. Weight in Grams: 340.

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.

From the conquest of the Mediterranean beginning in the third century BC to the destruction of the Roman Empire at the hands of barbarian invaders some seven centuries later, we discover the most critical episodes in Roman history: the spectacular collapse of the 'free' republic, the birth ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
BBC Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846072840
SKU
V9781846072840
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
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99-99

About Simon Baker
Simon Baker (Author) Simon Baker read Classics at Oxford University. In 1999 he joined the BBC's award-winning History Unit where he has worked on Timewatch and a wide range of programmes about the classical world. He was the Development Producer on the BBC One series Ancient Rome - The Rise and Fall of an Empire. This is his ... Read more

Reviews for Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of An Empire
Lively and well-researched: an excellent read
Peter Heather, author of The Fall of the Roman Empire This is a history of Rome that combines vivid drama and a gripping storyline with a keen alertness to bigger historical questions
Mary Beard, Professor of Classics at Cambridge University Brings the distant past to fully fleshed life
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