by Tom Holland
S.P.Q.R. is Mary Beard's look at, not how Rome fell, which many others have taken a stab at, but at how it rose. She covers Rome's "first millenium," ending in 212 AD, when the Emperor Caracalla extended Roman citizenship to all free inhabitants of the empire. The title takes its name from the La...
Not enough detail on Anthony, Cleopatra and Ceasar. :( But otherwise an ok book with a nice writing style.
”Rather than gesture his men onward, Gaius Julius Caesar instead gazed into the turbid waters of the Rubicon, and said nothing. And his mind moved upon silence.The Romans had a word for such a momentDiscrimen, they called it--an instant of perilous and excruciating tension, when the achievements of ...
Breezy and brisk, Tom Holland tells the story of the early Roman Republic and the counterintuitive yet inevitable transition to a monarchy in a style that is very easy to read. The Roman Republic was founded upon an abhorrence of kings, making the presumption that Rome was destined to be ruled by em...
Rubicon - Triumph Tragedy Roman Republic - Tom HollandRead by Steven Crossley | 13 cds | 15.7 hrs | unabridged | Clipper Audio | 2005 42 mp3 0101 _ Clipper Audio _ Rubicon, Last Years of the Roman Republic _ Tom Holland0102 _ Preface _ 49 BC _ Narrated by Steven Crossley0103 _ Preface _ The Die is C...
Wonderfully readable and vivid overview of the personalities and events of the tumultuous last decades of the Roman Republic.
A very good look at the final century of the Roman Republic, and a good companion volume to McCullough's Masters of Rome series, to fill in the blanks. Lots of maps, two inserts of black and white photos, timeline, bibliography and index. Longer review forthcoming.For the complete review, please go ...
Some people call Tom Holland a crappy pop historian. The issue here is that for many historical events, there are questions about veracity or motive or what really went down. Guys like Holland will take the most exciting of the possible truths and go with that; thus, Nero put Christians in cages a...
Fascinating bit of history on the Roman empire. Was long but the story telling was very good and read like a work of fiction. Had a hard time putting it down.
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