The Rise of Rome: The Making of the World’s Greatest Empire by Anthony Everitt
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Overview: Named a best book of the year by the Kansas City Star. From Anthony Everitt, bestselling author of biographies of Cicero, Augustus & Hadrian, comes an account of Rome & its ascent from an obscure agrarian backwater to the greatest empire the world has ever known. Emerging as a market town from a cluster of hill villages in the 8th & 7th centuries BCE, Rome grew to become the ancient world’s preeminent power. Everitt fashions the story of its rise into an erudite page-turner filled with lasting lessons. He chronicles the clash between patricians & plebeians defining Republican politics. He shows how its strategy of offering citizenship to defeated peoples was instrumental in its growth. He outlines the corrosion of constitutional norms that accompanied its imperial expansion, as old habits of political compromise gave way, leading to violence & civil war. In the end, wealth & power corrupted traditional virtues of the Republic. Rome was triumphant except within its own borders. Everitt paints indelible portraits of the greats who left their mark on the world out of which the empire grew: Cincinnatus, Rome’s George Washington, the very model of the patrician warrior/aristocrat; the general Scipio Africanus, who turned back a challenge from the Carthaginian legend Hannibal; & Alexander the Great, the invincible Macedonian conqueror who became a role model for generations of would-be rulers. Here also are the intellectual & philosophical leaders whose observations on the art of government & the good life have inspired every Western power since antiquity: Cato the Elder, an incorruptible statesman who spoke out against the decadence of his times, & Cicero, the orator whose championing of republican institutions put him on a collision course with Julius Caesar & whose writings on justice & liberty continue to inform political discourse. Rome’s decline & fall have long fascinated historians, but the story of how the empire was won is every bit as compelling.
Genre: Non Fiction History
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