The Ancient Roman World

Résumé du livre

Introduces the history, culture, and people of ancient Rome and examines its many contributions to the development of Western society, from the founding of Rome to the emergence and expansion of the Roman Republic and the spread of the Roman Empire and the Pax Romana, to the decline and defeat of the Empire and division into two distinct entities: Rome in the west and Byzantium in the east; and the rise and spread of Christianity and the migration of Jews throughout the Mediterranean region.