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Ancient Rome

The Rise and Fall of An Empire

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Ancient Rome

By: Simon Baker
Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
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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.

From the conquest of the Mediterranean beginning in the third century BC to the destruction of the Roman Empire at the hands of barbarian invaders some seven centuries later, we discover the most critical episodes in Roman history: the spectacular collapse of the "free" republic, the birth of the age of the "Caesars", the violent suppression of the strongest rebellion against Roman power, and the bloody civil war that launched Christianity as a world religion.

At the heart of this account are the dynamic, complex, and flawed characters of some of the most powerful rulers in history: men such as Pompey the Great, Julius Caesar, Augustus, Nero, and Constantine. Putting flesh on the bones of these distant, legendary figures, Baker looks beyond the dusty, toga-clad caricatures and explores their real motivations and ambitions.

©2006 Simon Baker; foreword by Mary Beard copyright 2006 by Woodlands Books Ltd (P)2016 Tantor Ancient Europe Rome World Italy Ancient History War Middle Ages Ancient Greece

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Skipping over most of the republic, Marcus Aurelius, 3rd Century crisis to instead give a play by play of the Jewish revolt and a strange biased discussion of early Christianity is a fascinating and bizarre set of priorities. A great starting point for those wanting to contextualise the overall timeline, but not a book particularly interested in minutiae or historiography

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Excellent listen. Such a wonderful outline of the history of the Roman Empire . Highly recommend

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