The Roman Empire

A Captivating Guide to the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire Including Stories of Roman Emperors Such as Augustus Octavian, Trajan, and Claudius

De: Captivating History

Narrado por: Duke Holm

Explore the captivating history of the Roman Empire.

The Roman Empire was one of the most powerful forces the world has ever seen. But this isn’t just the story of conquest or the incredible system of institutions that made it possible.

The Roman Empire is not yet another boring historical topic. On the contrary, it wakes our imagination, scares us, and entertains us.

This is the story of the fascinating men and women - the emperors, their wives, parents, brothers, sisters, and children - who gave the empire its characteristic charm. Some of them, like Marcus Aurelius and Antoninus Pius, were virtuous and wise; others - like Caligula, Commodus, and Caracalla - were monstrous, insane predators whose thirst for blood and sexual habits were beyond believable.

This is the story of the most important people and events between the two crucial events - the rise of Augustus in the first century BC and the final sack of Rome in the late fifth century AD.

Some of the topics covered in this audiobook include:

• From the Republic to the Empire: The rise of Octavian
• The age of Augustus
• The Julio-Claudian dynasty after Augustus: From Tiberius to Nero
• Civil war and the year of the four emperors (AD 68-69)
• The Flavians
• The Nerva-Antonine dynasty: The five good emperors (and a couple of not-so-good ones)
• Some new emperors
• Crises, civil wars, and divisions: The long and painful decline
• Two Empires: East and West
• And a great deal more you don't want to miss out on!

Get the audiobook now to learn more about the Roman Empire!

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Just an Overview

Not so deep, just a good overview with several gaps. Performance with a good, warm voice, but with several mispronunciatons.

Quick enjoyable history lesson.

This book has a lot of information and now had me more interested in some areas in the Roman history that I would like to take a closer look at. Definitely a great listen.

Inaccurate, poorly researched, haltingly performed

This is less a useful, intersectional, and compact dissection of the Roman Empire, and more a terrible watered-down and historically incorrect list of names and dates. I almost instantly lost any interest in the arguments of the author-- more so poor repetitions of other, better researched secondary sources --and instead became fascinated by what serpentine nonsense would come next. If this book were written so poorly on purpose, it would be a House of Leaves-tier work of satire and parody. This is a high school term paper allowed far too many pages.

The performer was okay. He clearly struggled with getting through sentences in one take, likely due to the sheer magnitude of grammar and spelling errors present in the book itself.