The Romans

An acclaimed scholar tells the full, breathtaking history of Rome “with verve and aplomb” (Roderick Beaton, author of The Greeks ), from its emergence in the Iron Age to the capture of Constantinople in the thirteenth century When we think of “ancient Romans” today, many picture the toga-clad figures of Cicero and Caesar, presiding over a republic, and then an empire, before seeing their world collapse at the hands of barbarians in the fifth century AD. The Romans does away with this narrow visi