Rise of rome

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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE KANSAS CITY STAR

From Anthony Everitt, the bestselling author of acclaimed biographies of Cicero, Augustus, and Hadrian, comes a riveting, magisterial account of Rome and its remarkable ascent from an obscure agrarian backwater to the greatest empire the world has ever known.

Emerging as a market town from a cluster of hill villages in the eighth and seventh centuries B.C., Rome grew to become the ancient world’s preeminent power. Everitt fashions the story of Rome’s rise to glory into an erudite page-turner filled with lasting lessons for our time. He chronicles the clash between patricians and plebeians that defined the politics of the Republic. He shows how Rome’s shrewd strategy of offering citizenship to her defeated subjects was instrumental in expanding the reach of her burgeoning empire. And he outlines the corrosion of constitutional norms that accompanied Rome’s imperial expansion, as old habits of political compromise gave way, leading to violence and civil war. In the end, unimaginable wealth and power corrupted the traditional virtues of the Republic, and Rome was left triumphant everywhere except within its own borders.

Everitt paints indelible portraits of the great Romans—and non-Romans—who left their mark on the world out of which the mighty empire grew: Cincinnatus, Rome’s George Washington, the very model of the patrician warrior/aristocrat; the brilliant general Scipio Africanus, who turned back a challenge from the Carthaginian legend Hannibal; and Alexander the Great, the invincible Macedonian conqueror who became a role model for generations of would-be Roman rulers. Here also are the intellectual and philosophical leaders whose observations on the art of government and “the good life” have inspired every Western power from antiquity to the present: Cato the Elder, the famously incorruptible statesman who spoke out against the decadence of his times, and Cicero, the consummate orator whose championing of republican institutions put him on a collision course with Julius Caesar and whose writings on justice and liberty continue to inform our political discourse today.

Rome’s decline and fall have long fascinated historians, but the story of how the empire was won is every bit as compelling. With The Rise of Rome, one of our most revered chroniclers of the ancient world tells that tale in a way that will galvanize, inform, and enlighten modern readers.

Praise for The Rise of Rome

“Fascinating history and a great read.”—Chicago Sun-Times

“An engrossing history of a relentlessly pugnacious city’s 500-year rise to empire.”—Kirkus Reviews

“Rome’s history abounds with remarkable figures. . . . Everitt writes for the informed and the uninformed general reader alike, in a brisk, conversational style, with a modern attitude of skepticism and realism.”—The Dallas Morning News

“[A] lively and readable account . . . Roman history has an uncanny ability to resonate with contemporary events.”—Maclean’s

“Elegant, swift and faultless as an introduction to his subject.”—The Spectator

“[An] engaging work that will captivate and inform from beginning to end.”—Booklist

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The Rise of Rome

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A gripping account of the ascent of rome from agrarian backwater to capital of the world s greatest empire an elegant swift and faultless introduction to the subject the spectatorstarting with the founding myth of romulus and remus anthony everitt charts rome s development from its origins a Verwacht over 3 weken .. MEER INFO

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A fresh original account of the origins and rise of the ancient world s greatest imperial power in the late iron age rome was a small collection of huts arranged over a few hills by the third century bc it had become a large and powerful city with monumental temples public buildings and grand Uiterlijk 22 november in huis .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Uitvoering: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 12 november 2013

Aantal pagina's: 478

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Anthony Everitt

Verteller: Clive Chafer

Hoofduitgeverij: Random House Trade Paperbacks

Extra groot lettertype: Nee

Product breedte: 155 mm

Product hoogte: 27 mm

Product lengte: 234 mm

Studieboek: Ja

Verpakking breedte: 233 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 29 mm

Verpakking lengte: 233 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 510 g

EAN: 9780812978155

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