Chronicle of the Roman republic: The rulers of Ancient Rome from Romulus to A…

The Chronicle of the Roman Republic examines the succession of kings, consuls, and tribunes who took Rome from a small fortified hilltop to the greatest empire of antiquity. Here we meet the builders of Rome - superstitious, brutal and utterly uncompromising, but often men of great honour and principle. Astonishingly, such men created one of the most civilized societies in the ancient world - a…

The rotten Romans

All the foul facts about the Rotten Romans are ready to uncover, including what Roman soldiers wore under their kilts and how ancient Britons got their hair nice and spiky.

The ancient Romans : their lives and their world

Edition

1st ed.

ISBN/ISSN

9780714131276

Collation

80 p. : ill. (some col.), ports.; 22 cm

Series Title

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Call Number

937 ROB a

restoration of Rome: barbarian popes and imperial pretenders

OverviewrnIn 476 AD, the last of Rome's emperors, known as Augustulus was deposed by a barbarian general, the son of one of Attila the Hun's henchmen. With the imperial vestments dispatched to Constantinople, the curtain fell on the Roman empire in Western Europe, its territories divided among successor kingdoms constructed around barbarian military manpower.rnrnBut, if the Roman Empire was de…