The Rise of Rome: The Making of the World's Greatest Empire
Language: English
Published by Random House, New York, 2012
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New York: Random House, (2012). First Edition, Fifth Printing. Large 8vo. xviii,478pp, Index, Notes. Hardcover. Fine condition in fine dj. Rome's rise from a little known agrarian region to become the greatest empire the world has known. ISBN 9781400066636; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 478 pages.
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- Title
- The Rise of Rome: The Making of the World's Greatest Empire
- Author
- Everitt, Anthony
- Publisher
- Random House, New York
- Publication year
- 2012
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1400066638
- ISBN 13
- 9781400066636
- Edition
- First Edition; Fifth Printing.
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 worlds preeminent power. Everitt fashions the story of Romes 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 Romes 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 Romes 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 Romansand non-Romanswho left their mark on the world out of which the mighty empire grew: Cincinnatus, Romes 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.
Romes 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 citys 500-year rise to empire.Kirkus Reviews
Romes 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.Macleans
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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