FROM THE SEVEN HILLS TO THE END OF AN AGE
From Republic to Ruin
The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire
HISTORY / ANCIENT / ROMEA thousand years of power, ambition, and the long unravelling of the ancient world's greatest empire.
About This Book
Rome began as a muddy village on seven hills and became the organizing principle of the Mediterranean world — law, language, roads, and the idea of empire itself. Then, over centuries of glory and decay, it fractured, transformed, and fell in ways historians still argue about: barbarian invasions, economic strain, Christian revolution, palace intrigue, and the slow death of civic virtue.
This is a sweeping single-volume history of Rome for readers who want the arc entire: the Republic and its civil wars; Caesar, Augustus, and the imperial peace; the high empire of Trajan and Hadrian; crisis of the third century; Constantine and the Christian turn; the split of East and West; and the end of the Western Empire — with Byzantium's long afterlife in view.
Epic in scope, intimate in scene, it is popular history that refuses to treat Rome as a museum piece: a living story of ambition, engineering, cruelty, and the question every age asks of every empire — how did it last so long, and why did it end?
What you'll receive
A digital edition of this book — an EPUB ebook — for personal reading, delivered electronically. It is available today from the retailers listed here; each store delivers to its own reading app or device.
Published by EBCOBook under the E.B Cohen name. © E.B Cohen. All rights reserved. Produced with an AI-assisted publishing workflow. How we make our books · Questions or support
← Back to catalog