Wanda McCaddon
Author
Publisher
Book of the Month Club
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
The personalities of the Twelve Caesars of ancient Rome-Julius Caesar and the first eleven Roman emperors who followed him-have profoundly impressed themselves upon the world. They bore the perilous responsibility of governing an empire comparable in its gigantic magnitude and diversity to the United States and the Soviet Union of the 1980s. It is a matter of perennial concern to investigate how the potentates who wield such vast might, and the men...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c1991
Language
English
Description
Through his in-depth analysis, Michael Grant introduces us to the political, military, cultural, social, economic, and religious life of the times that were the building blocks of what we now call the Western World. He creates a vivid panorama of the Greco-Roman world by bringing together the most dramatic events on record from its beginnings in 1,000 BC to the fall of the western Roman Empire in the fifth century AD. The Founders of the Western World...