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    The Rise of Rome: The Making of the World's Greatest Empire
    The Rise of Rome: The Making of the World's Greatest Empire
    The Rise of Rome: The Making of the World's Greatest Empire
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    The Rise of Rome: The Making of the World's Greatest Empire

    Written by Anthony Everitt

    Narrated by Clive Chafer

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    About this audiobook

    Emerging as a market town from a cluster of hill villages in the eighth
    and seventh centuries B.C., Rome grew to become the ancient world's
    preeminent power. Everitt fashions the story of Rome's rise to glory
    into an erudite book filled with lasting lessons for our time. He
    chronicles the clash between patricians and plebeians that defined the
    politics of the Republic. He shows how Rome's shrewd strategy of
    offering citizenship to her defeated subjects was instrumental in
    expanding the reach of her burgeoning empire. And he outlines the
    corrosion of constitutional norms that accompanied Rome's imperial
    expansion, as old habits of political compromise gave way, leading to
    violence and civil war. In the end, unimaginable wealth and power
    corrupted the traditional virtues of the Republic, and Rome was left
    triumphant everywhere except within its own borders. nbsp; Everitt
    paints indelible portraits of the great Romans-and non-Romans-who left
    their mark on the world out of which the mighty empire grew:
    Cincinnatus, Rome's George Washington, the very model of the patrician
    warrior/aristocrat; the brilliant general Scipio Africanus, who turned
    back a challenge from the Carthaginian legend Hannibal; and Alexander
    the Great, the invincible Macedonian conqueror who became a role model
    for generations of would-be Roman rulers. Here also are the intellectual
    and philosophical leaders whose observations on the art of government
    and "the good life" have inspired every Western power from antiquity to
    the present: Cato the Elder, the famously incorruptible statesman who
    spoke out against the decadence of his times, and Cicero, the consummate
    orator whose championing of republican institutions put him on a
    collision course with Julius Caesar and whose writings on justice and
    liberty continue to inform our political discourse today. nbsp;
    Rome's decline and fall have long fascinated historians, but the story
    of how the empire was won is every bit as compelling. With The Rise of Rome,
    one of our most revered chroniclers of the ancient world tells that
    tale in a way that will galvanize, inform, and enlighten modern listeners.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateSep 17, 2012
    ISBN9781452679488
    The Rise of Rome: The Making of the World's Greatest Empire
    Author

    Anthony Everitt

    Anthony Everitt is a former visiting professor in the visual and performing arts at Nottingham Trent University and previously served as secretary general of the Arts Council of Great Britain. He has written extensively on European culture and history, and is the author of Cicero, Augustus, Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome, The Rise of Rome, and The Rise of Athens. Everitt lives near Colchester, England's first recorded town, founded by the Romans.

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