Description
Product ID: | 9781846072840 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire |
Authors: | Author: Simon Baker |
Page Count: | 448 |
Subjects: | European history, European history, Ancient history, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Ancient Rome |
Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. 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. |
Imprint Name: | BBC Books |
Publisher Name: | Ebury Publishing |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2007-06-07 |