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Author: Mary T. Boatwright
Pages: 352
Size: 1.282,48 Kb
Publication Date: January 12,2006
Category: Rome
How did an individual village community in the Italian peninsula eventually become among the mightiest imperial powers the globe has ever known? timeline of important occasions; Boatwright, Daniel J. Gargola, and Richard J. Concise narrative integrates the political, military, public, and cultural landmarks of over 1,500 years–from the first struggles against Etruscans, Samnites, and Gauls to the sack of Rome by Alaric and his Visigoths. Talbert.
This shorter edition lucidly unfolds Rome’s amazing development through monarchy, republic, and an empire that, at its elevation, stretched from Scotland to Iraq and the Nile Valley.A. glossary of Latin conditions It is a perfect text for programs on Old civilization, Roman civilization, or Roman background.
FEATURES
* Fourteen boxes offering excerpts from writings by Romans themselves
* Extensive selection of photos and illustrations, all with comprehensive captions; twenty-four custom-drawn maps of the town of Rome, Italy, the Mediterranean, and the wider Roman globe
* Narrative enlivened by such fascinating people as Hannibal, Mithridates, Pompey, Caesar, Cleopatra, Augustus, Livia, Nero, Trajan, Shapur, and Constantine
* Selective, up-to-date tips for additional reading; This question may be the focus of A BRIEF OVERVIEW of the Romans, an abbreviated edition of the extremely acclaimed The Romans: From Village to Empire by Mary T. The publication gives readers a simple however engaging introduction to Roman background and society.