Veni, Vidi, Vici: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Romans But Were Afraid to Ask PDF
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VENI VIDI VICI Also by Peter Jones Vote for Caesar Classics in Translation Published in Great Britain in 2013 by Atlantic Books, an imprint of Atlantic Books Ltd. Copyright © Peter Jones, 2013 The moral right of Peter Jones to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book. Every effort has been made to trace or contact all copyright holders. The publishers will be pleased to make good any omissions or rectify any mistakes brought to their attention at the earliest opportunity. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Hardback ISBN: 978-1-84887-903-4 Ebook ISBN: 978-1-78239-020-6 Designed by Carrdesignstudio.com Printed in Great Britain. Atlantic Books An Imprint of Atlantic Books Ltd Ormond House 26–27 Boswell Street London WC1N 3JZ www.atlantic-books.co.uk CONTENTS Maps Introduction I Lost in the Myths of Time From Aeneas to Romulus, Remus and Rome II 753–509 BC Not a Roman in Sight, but Rome in Our Sights The Early Kings III 509–264 BC What It Meant to be Roman (I) From Rape to Conquest IV 509–287 BC What It Meant to be Roman (II) The Rise of the Republic V 810–146 BC Their Finest Hour Carthaginians, Hannibal and Empire VI 146–78 BC The Problem with No Solution From the Gracchi to Sulla VII 81–44 BC The End of a World Pompey and Caesar VIII 44 – 14 BC AD Rising from the Ashes The First Emperor–Augustus IX 14–96 AD Bedding Down Together Emperor and People X 96–192 AD Bread and Circuses Empire without End? 279 XI 193–476 AD Germans, Huns and the Fall of the Roman West XII 1–430 AD The Growing Revolution Church and State Bibliography Index MAPS
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