The rise of Rome : the making of the world's greatest empire / Anthony Everitt.
Rome's decline and fall have long fascinated historians, but the story of how the empire was won is every bit as compelling. Emerging as a market town from a cluster of hill villages in the eighth and seventh centuries B.C.E., Rome grew to become the ancient world's preeminent power. Histo...
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New York :
Random House,
©2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Legend. A new Troy
- Kings and tyrants
- Expulsion
- So what really happened
- Story. The land and it's people
- Free at last
- General strike
- The fall of Rome
- Under the yoke
- History. The adventurer
- All at sea
- "Hannibal at the gates"
- The bird without a tail
- Change and decay
- The gorgeous East
- Blood brothers
- Triumph and disaster
- Afterword.