Rome category: 2065 books

The best means of realising the extent of the Roman Empire in or about the year 64 is to glance at the map. It will be found to reach from the Atlantic Ocean to the Euphrates, from the middle of England - approximately the river Trent - to the south of Egypt, from the Rhine and the Danube to the Desert...

Gibbon offers an explanation for why the Roman Empire fell, a task made difficult by a lack of comprehensive written sources, though he was not the only historian to tackle the subject. Most of his ideas are directly taken from what few relevant records were available: those of the Roman moralists of the 4th and 5th centuries.

The Roman war machine comprised land and naval forces. Although the former has been studied extensively, less has been written and understood about the naval forces of the Roman empire and, in particular, the regional navies which actively participated in most military operations and policed the seas...

Agathocles was King of Sicily, ruling between 304 to 289 B.C. Born to a potter, Agathocles joined the army but was banished for attempting to overthrow the government of Syracuse. He returned in 317 with an army and declared himself tyrant of Syracuse. Agathocles warred with Carthage until 306 B.C....

The Republican Roman Army assembles a wide range of source material and introduces the latest scholarship on the evolution of the Roman Army and the Roman experience of war. The author has carefully selected and translated key texts, many of them not previously available in English, and provided them...

The Roman Navy was remarkable for its size, reach and longevity. As significant as the Royal Navy was to the British Empire in the nineteenth century, the Roman Navy was crucial to the extraordinary expansion of Imperial power and for its maintenance over a period of more than 800 years. The fabric...

Peter Jones takes the reader on a fascinating journey along the highways and byways of Roman life and culture, telling the amazing stories behind the original Latin meanings and uses of hundreds of our everyday words. Taking in every aspect of the ancient world, including science, religion, military...

In this revealing and entertaining guide to how the Romans confronted their own mortality, Peter Jones shows us that all the problems associated with old age and death that so transfix us today were already dealt with by our ancient ancestors two thousand years ago.Romans inhabited a world where man,...

The birth of the mighty Roman Navy was anchored in the Romans' extraordinary ability to absorb and perfect the technology of other states and empires. This is the story of the design, development and operation of the Republican Roman warship in the age of the conquest of the Mediterranean, from the...

Questi tre libri raccontano l’incredibile avventura che portò un villaggio di pastori a diventare la più grande potenza militare che il mondo antico abbia mai conosciuto. La storia delle legioni e la descrizione delle tattiche e delle battaglie sono accompagnate da numerose immagini e da splendide tavole a colori.

Inizia la decadenza dell’impero ed anche il suo esercito è sottoposto a continui mutamenti, per adeguarsi ai Barbari che, sempre più potenti, invadono i territori di Roma. Caduto l’Impero d’Occidente , con Giustiniano e Arturo la tradizione dei soldati romani rivivrà ancora momenti di gloria....

La morte di Nerone nel giugno del 68 dopo Cristo getta l'Impero di Roma nel caos e in una guerra civile senza precedenti. È l'anno dei Quattro Imperatori. Pretoriani e legionari eleggono i propri imperatori che si affronteranno in una lotta senza quartiere: Galba,  Otone,  Vitellio, Vespasiano. Un...

Continua il viaggio degli autori nel mondo dell'esercito romano: in questo secondo volume si racconta la storia delle legioni imperiali del periodo classico, durante il quale l'Impero raggiunse il massimo della sua estensione territoriale. Attraverso 16 splendide tavole a colori e numerose illustrazioni,...

The ancient Romans' story down to 264 B.C. can be made credible by stripping away their later myths and inventions to show how their national character shaped their destiny. After many generations of scholarly study, consensus is clear: the account in writers like Livy is not to be trusted...