Sovereign and multifaceted, Kathryn Lomas describes Roman history from its very beginnings to the start of the Punic Wars. She succeeds brilliantly in making this history comprehensible in all its particularity, and she provides surprising answers to the historical question of all questions: How and why did a small city manage the astonishing, in no way preordained rise to world power?
In the late Iron Age, Rome was a small collection of huts on some hills along the Tiber. By the 3rd century BC it was already a large and powerful city with monumental temples and public buildings. Rome had conquered all of Italy and was preparing to build a world empire. But how and by what means did the Romans achieve this world-historically significant feat? How did a collection of villages turn into a cosmopolitan city? Kathryn Lomas describes the history and development of Rome from its mythical beginnings to the start of the wars with Carthage.
Group
Books (first-hand)
Author
Lomas, Kathryn
Title
Der Aufstieg Roms. Von Romulus bis Pyrrhus
Details
541 pages.
State
new
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