Rome

The Roman Republic was the most remarkable state in history. What began as a small community of peasants camped among marshes and hills ended up ruling the known world.

A lively and engaging narrative history showing the common threads in the cultures that gave birth to our own....

Professor Alice Roberts combines archaeological finds with cutting-edge DNA research and written history to shed fresh light on how people lived: by examining the stories of the dead....

Written between A.D. 413 and 426, The City of God is one of the great cornerstones in the history of Christian thought....

Generally considered to be J. B. Bury's magnum opus, this kaleidoscopic and assiduously accurate reconstruction of the Western and Eastern Roman empire covers the crucial years from the death of Theodosius in 395 to the death of Justinian in 565.

The story of the tumultuous years that set the stage for the fall of the Roman Republic....

Is the Greek alphabet all Greek to you? Is geometry your Achilles heel and does your knowledge of Homer have more to do with The Simpsons than the Sirens?....

Here in a single volume is the entire, unabridged recording of Gibbon's masterpiece....

Experience the world of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius and the tremendous challenges he faced and overcame with the help of Stoic philosophy.

Who was Rome's greatest general, statesman, and nation-builder: Caesar or Pompey?

Throughout the Roman Empire cities held public lectures, had libraries, and teachers and professors in the sciences and the humanities, some subsidized by the state....

Putting the games in the context of Rome's rise and dramatic fall, Mannix captures all the history, planning, and savage pageantry that went into creating the first spectator sports.

On the horizons of many warring tribes, Roman warriors, knights from chivalric orders, and the devoted penniless appeared on a divine mission ready to conquer....

Laughter in Ancient Rome explores one of the most intriguing, but also trickiest, of historical subjects. Drawing on a wide range of Roman writing-from essays on rhetoric to a surviving Roman joke book-Mary Beard tracks down the giggles, smirks, and guffaws of the ancient Romans themselves.

This audiobook gives a dramatic account of the Antonine plague, the mysterious disease that struck the Roman Empire at its pinnacle....

Gaius Marius: The Life and Legacy of the General Who Reformed the Roman Army chronicles how Marius rose through the ranks, his reforms of the military, and his lasting legacy....

With Caesar's assassination comes renewed civil war. The aristocratic senatorial faction is defeated...

A radical and powerful reappraisal of the impact of Constantine's adoption of Christianity on the later Roman world, and on the subsequent development both of Christianity and of Western civilization....

This audiobook narrated by best-selling author Mary Beard explores how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power....

Author Emma Southon examines a trove of real-life homicides from Roman history to explore Roman culture, including how perpetrator, victim, and the act itself were regarded by ordinary people....

Peter Heather convincingly argues that the Roman Empire was not on the brink of social or moral collapse. What brought it to an end were the barbarians....

The last and longest war of classical antiquity was fought in the early seventh century. It was ideologically charged and fought along the full length of the Persian-Roman frontier, drawing in all the available resources and great powers of the steppe world....

Stephen Dando-Collins paints a vivid and definitive portrait of daily life in the Tenth Legion....

Three battles into the second war between Carthage and Rome, the Republic was reeling. Welcome to 217 B. C.

Tacitus is most famous for his amazing descriptions of the reign of Nero, one of the most ruthless and sadistic monarchs of all time....

The Roman gladiator has long been a figure of fascination. Portrayed frequently in fine art and popular culture alike, the gladiator is both a real part of history and a legend of a romanticized past. We know that these men entertained Roman audiences by fighting in dangerous and often deadly games. But who were the gladiators? What were their lives like? And why do they continue to have such a strong hold on our imagination, centuries after the fall of the Roman Empire?

Few people have had as many words written about them down through the centuries as Julius Caesar—the brilliant general who made Queen Cleopatra of Egypt his mistress. He has captured the imagination of playwrights, historians, soldiers, and emperors. Little has been written about his ally, son-in-law, and eventual enemy Pompey the Great, who crashed onto the Roman scene as a victorious twenty-three-year-old general and who, at the height of his career, was arguably more famous, more popular, and more successful than Caesar.

Nessun personaggio storico, se si esclude, forse, Adolf Hitler, ha mai goduto di così cattiva stampa come Nerone. Alcuni autori cristiani ritennero che fosse addirittura l’Anticristo. In realtà, Nerone fu un grandissimo uomo di Stato. Durante i quattordici anni del suo regno l’Impero conobbe un periodo di pace, di prosperità, di dinamismo economico e culturale quale non ebbe mai né prima né dopo di lui.

Sigue el día a día de los ciudadanos romanos, acompañándolos por las calles de la capital, los templos, los palacios, los barrios bajos, hasta las arenas del circo. "El barco en el que viaja Aniceto rumbo a Roma (...) llega por fin a Ostia, puerto de la capital. Desde allí, se dirige apresuradamente a la Ciudad Eterna. El día anterior, una misiva firmada por el emperador le instaba a presentarse lo antes posible en su morada. El tono urgente de la carta dejaba entrever una cierta gravedad que no cesa de inquietarlo.

Cléopâtre est la plus célèbre des reines de l’Antiquité et l’objet de tous les fantasmes : femme fatale, Égyptienne avide et cruelle, maîtresse et épouse des hommes les plus puissants de Rome... Elle fut en réalité la reine grecque d’un royaume prestigieux, dernier vestige de l’empire d’Alexandre le Grand. Avec un regard critique, utilisant textes, inscriptions, images et monnaies, Maurice Sartre écarte les mythes, brise les idées reçues et brosse le juste portrait d’une souveraine lucide et volontaire.