Ancient Rome: A Captivating Introduction to the Roman Republic, the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, and the Byzantine Empire

De: Captivating History

Narrado por: Timothy Burke

If you want to discover captivating stories of people and events of ancient Rome then keep reading....

The Roman civilization is probably the single most important civilization in the history of the planet. Its expansion defined Europe. Its constitution shaped societies from Russia in the east to the United States and Latin America in the west. Not even its conquerors were immune to the superior Roman culture.

In this new captivating history book, you’ll learn all you need to know about Roman institutions and politics. But our focus will be on the captivating stories and curious personalities of the Roman emperors, politicians, and generals - from Romulus, Caesar, Augustus, Trajan, and Hadrian to Constantine, Justinian, and Belisarius.

Equally important (and perhaps even more interesting) are the stories of influential women - mothers, wives, and lovers, from Cleopatra and Agrippina to Theodora and Zoe with the coal-black eyes - whose schemes often redirected the course of history.

Here are some of the topics covered in Ancient Rome: A Captivating Introduction to the Roman Republic, the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, and the Byzantine Empire:

• The Seven Kings of Seven Hills: The Foundation of Rome and Its First Rulers
• The Early Republic
• The Punic Wars and Mediterranean Dominance: The Middle Republic
• Decay, Corruption, and Civil Wars: The Late Republic
• Gaius Julius Caesar, Crossing the Rubicon, and Death That Shook the City
• The Rise of First Roman Emperor
• Early Roman Empire: Princeps Augustus and Julio-Claudian Dynasty
• The Flavian Dynasty
• The Nerva-Antonine Dynasty
• Late Empire
• The Empire of Constantine
• Constantinian Dynasty
• Decline and Fall of the Western Roman Empire
• The Byzantine Millennium
• And much, much more!

Listen to this audiobook now to learn more about ancient Rome!

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I was pleasantly surprised.

I think you will enjoy this book, if you are like me and a relative novice on Roman history, give it a try.

I found this book an excellent starting point.

The book concentrates on approximately 7 turning points in Roman history and the personalities who mattered the most. I think the chapter I enjoyed the most was the one on the Jewish rebellion. With this as a background I think I'm ready to tackle works of Josephus.

Its wonderful to read.

Being a survey book I could see no other reason to read it. I was pleasantly surprised. I found the book to read like a novel. Overall the author nails the mood of the time period and inserts the facts needed for an introduction to what Ancient Rome was, where it came from, how it evolved, and the seeds of its undoing. I also enjoyed the period pieces that the author chose to write about, because to fit every major event in Rome's history.

Good book for me on the Roman Empire.

Good book for my first on Roman Empire history. We are going to Italy this fall and I wanted some appreciation of the Roman Empire. I have done a lot of reading on Greek history but not so much on the history of the Romans. I think I will try and buy the next series about the specific topic.

Like a documantry, good one.

I was some ways into this book when I began to think that this thing read like one of those not too serious documentaries on the History channel. Of course that's in fact what it is. I bought the book mainly because I enjoy Captivating History's writing and figured she would not endorse and write the introduction for something of questionable quality. Indeed, this is a very successful gloss of the high (read dramatic) points of Roman history.