Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age - THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER (Dilly's Story) - Softcover

Holland, Tom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0349141215 ISBN 13: 9780349141213

Publisher: Abacus, 2024

Synopsis

The third in the epic trilogy narrating the history of the Roman Empire from renowned historian Tom Holland

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About the Author

Tom Holland is an award-winning historian, author and broadcaster. His bestselling books include Rubicon: The Triumph and the Tragedy of the Roman Republic, which won the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize; Persian Fire, which won the Anglo-Hellenic League's Runciman Award; Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom; In the Shadow of the Sword: The Battle for Global Empire and the End of the Ancient World; Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar; and Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind.

Holland has adapted Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides and Virgil for the BBC. His translation of Herodotus was published in 2013 by Penguin Classics and followed in 2016 by a history of Æthelstan published under the Penguin Monarchs series, and in 2019 Æthelflæd England's Forgotten Founder as a Ladybird Expert Book. In 2007, he was the winner of the Classical Association prize, awarded to 'the individual who has done most to promote the study of the language, literature and civilisation of Ancient Greece and Rome'.

Holland hosts (with Dominic Sandbrook) the no.1 podcast The Rest is History. He has written and presented a number of TV documentaries for the BBC and Channel 4, on subjects ranging from religion to dinosaurs. He served two years as the Chair of the Society of Authors; as Chair of the PLR Advisory Committee and was on the committee of the Classical Association.

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From the Back Cover

Beginning in 69AD, a year that saw four Caesars in succession rule the empire, and ending some seven decades later with the death of Hadrian, Pax presents a dazzling history of Rome at the height of its power. From the gilded capital to realms beyond the frontier, Tom Holland portrays the Roman Empire in all its predatory glory. Vivid scene follows vivid scene: the destruction of Jerusalem and Pompeii, the building of the Colosseum and Hadrian's Wall, the conquests of Trajan. Dramatically sketching the lives of Romans both ordinary and spectacular, from slaves to emperors, Holland demonstrates how Roman peace was the fruit of unprecedented military violence.


'There's no other historian who can bring the ancient world before the reader... Riveting from first page to last' Daily Mail


'This is a book for lovers of traditional, grand sweep narrative history' Sunday Times


'Rarely has the distant past seemed so vividly alive' Financial Times

Edition details

• Publisher: Abacus
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0349141215
• ISBN 13: 9780349141213
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 448