Full name: Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of An Empire

Author: Simon Baker Year: 2006 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction Culture: Italy Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781846072840 1846072840

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. At the heart of this gripping popular history are the dynamic, complex but flawed characters of Rome's most powerful rulers: men such as Pompey the Great, Julius Caesar, Augustus, Nero and Constantine. The superb narrative, full of energy and imagination, is a brilliant distillation of the latest scholarship and a wonderfully evocative account of Ancient Rome. Similar books: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon A History of the Roman People by Allen M. Ward Terry Jones' Barbarians by Terry Jones The Ruin of the Roman Empire by James J. O'Donnell The Rise of Rome by Anthony Everitt The Roman Way by Edith Hamilton The Day of the Barbarians by Alessandro Barbero The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Roman Empire by Eric D. Nelson How Rome Fell by Adrian Goldsworthy Carthage Must Be Destroyed by Richard Miles Corruption and the Decline of Rome by Ramsay MacMullen History of Rome by Michael Grant The Roman History: The Reign of Augustus by Cassius Dio SPQR by Mary Beard The Romans For Dummies by Guy de la Bedoyere City of Fortune by Roger Crowley April Blood by Lauro Martines The Taste of Conquest by Michael Krondl Dead Wake by Erik Larson The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs