Pax Romana

The leading ancient world historian and author of Caesar presents “an engrossing account of how the Roman Empire grew and operated” ( Kirkus ). Renowned for his biographies of Julius Caesar and Augustus, Adrian Goldsworthy turns his attention to the Roman Empire as a whole during its height in the first and second centuries AD. Though this time is known as the Roman Peace, or Pax Romana , the Romans were fierce imperialists who took by force vast lands stretching from the Euphrates to the Atlant