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This is actually the story of the best empire the earth has ever known. Simon Baker graphs the climb and semester of the world's first superpower, concentrating on six momentous turning details that formed Roman history. Welcome to Rome as you've never seen it before - wonderful and splendid, gritty and squalid. From conquest of the Mediterranean beginning in the third century BC to the destruction of the Roman Empire at the hands of barbarian invaders some seven centuries later, we uncover the most critical episodes in Roman history: the spectacular collapse of the "free" republic, the delivery of the age of the "Caesars", the violent suppression of the best rebellion against Roman power, and the bloody civil conflict that launched Christianity as a world religion. In the centre of this profile are the strong, complex, and flawed personas of some of the most powerful rulers in history: men such as Pompey the Great, Julius Caesar, Augustus, Nero, and Constantine. Adding flesh on the bone fragments of these distant, legendary figures, Baker appears beyond the dusty, toga-clad caricatures and explores their real motivations and ambitions.
