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From Anthony Everitt, the bestselling author of acclaimed biographies of Cicero, Augustus, and Hadrian, comes a riveting, magisterial account of Rome and its remarkable 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 eighth and seventh centuries B.C., Rome grew to become the ancient worlds preeminent power. Everitt fashions the story of Romes rise to glory into an erudite page-turner filled with lasting lessons for our time. He chronicles the clash between patricians and plebeians that defined the politics of the Republic. He shows how Romes shrewd strategy of offering citizenship to her defeated subjects was instrumental in expanding the reach of her burgeoning empire. And he outlines the corrosion of constitutional norms that accompanied Romes imperial expansion, as old habits of political compromise gave way, leading to violence and civil war. In the end, unimaginable wealth and power corrupted the traditional virtues of the Republic, and Rome was left triumphant everywhere except within its own borders.
Everitt paints indelible portraits of the great Romansand non-Romanswho left their mark on the world out of which the mighty empire grew: Cincinnatus, Romes George Washington, the very model of the patrician warrior/aristocrat; the brilliant general Scipio Africanus, who turned back a challenge from the Carthaginian legend Hannibal; and Alexander the Great, the invincible Macedonian conqueror who became a role model for generations of would-be Roman rulers. Here also are the intellectual and philosophical leaders whose observations on the art of government and the good life have inspired every Western power from antiquity to the present: Cato the Elder, the famously incorruptible statesman who spoke out against the decadence of his times, and Cicero, the consummate orator whose championing of republican institutions put him on a collision course with Julius Caesar and whose writings on justice and liberty continue to inform our political discourse today.
Romes decline and fall have long fascinated historians, but the story of how the empire was won is every bit as compelling. With The Rise of Rome, one of our most revered chroniclers of the ancient world tells that tale in a way that will galvanize, inform, and enlighten modern readers.
Praise for The Rise of Rome
Fascinating history and a great read.Chicago Sun-Times
An engrossing history of a relentlessly pugnacious citys 500-year rise to empire.Kirkus Reviews
Romes history abounds with remarkable figures. . . . Everitt writes for the informed and the uninformed general reader alike, in a brisk, conversational style, with a modern attitude of skepticism and realism.The Dallas Morning News
[A] lively and readable account . . . Roman history has an uncanny ability to resonate with contemporary events.Macleans
Elegant, swift and faultless as an introduction to his subject.The Spectator
[An] engaging work that will captivate and inform from beginning to end.Booklist
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My faithful twin props in England have been my agent, Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson, and the London Library. My exemplary editor on the far side of the Atlantic, Will Murphy, ably supported by assistant editor Katie Donelan, has tolerated broken deadlines and been a fountain of wise advice. As with my previous books, Professor Robert Cape of Austin College, Texas, has kindly read a draft and offered valuable comments and suggestions.
I am indebted to the dentist Shahin Nozohoor for advice on the state of Pyrrhuss teeth.
I am grateful to Penguin Books for permission to quote extensively from its translations of Livy and Polybius.
Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome
Cicero: The Life and Times of Romes Greatest Politician
Augustus: The Life of Romes First Emperor
ANTHONY EVERITT , a sometime visiting professor in the visual and performing arts at Nottingham Trent University, has written extensively on European culture and is the author of Cicero, Augustus, and Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome. He has served as secretary general of the Arts Council of Great Britain. Everitt lives near Colchester, Englands first recorded town, founded by the Romans.
Sources not cited here are published both in the original language and in translation by Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and are listed under Abbreviations in the Notes section. Other translations I have made use of or consulted appear below.
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Aurelius Victor (attributed), De viris illustribus, Andreas Schottus (8 vols., Antwerp, 1579).
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Bible (Good News Bible, 1966; New York: American Bible Society).
Catullus, Carmina (Odes), trans. James Michie (London: Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd., 1969) (Also in Loeb).
Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum [CIS]. Pars Prima Inscriptiones Phoenicias Continens (Paris, 1881).
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Festus, Breviarium rerum gestarum populi Romani (Summary of Roman History), ed. W. Frster (1874), C. Wagener (1886).
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Carmina (Odes), trans. James Michie (Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin Books, 1967) (Also in Loeb).
Horace, The Complete Odes and Epodes, trans. W. G. Shepherd (London: Penguin Books, 1983).
Horace, Satires and Epistles, Persius, Satires, trans. Niall Rudd (London: Penguin Books, 1973).
Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae, H. Dessau (Berlin, 18911916).
Livy, The Early History of Rome, trans. Aubrey de Selincourt (London: Penguin Books, 1960).
Livy, Rome and Italy, trans. Betty Radice (Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin Books, 1982).
Livy, The War with Hannibal, trans. Aubrey de Selincourt (Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin Books, 1965).
Livy, Rome and the Mediterranean, trans. Henry Bettenson (Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin Books, 1976).
Orosius, Paulus, Historiarum Adversum Paganos Libri VII (Seven Books of History Against the Pagans). See the Latin Library, www.thelatinlibrary.com/.
Plautus, The Comedies, trans. various hands, 4 vols. (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995).
Pliny the Elder, Natural History: A Selection, trans. John F. Healy (London: Penguin Books, 1991).
Plutarch, Makers of Rome, trans. Ian Scott-Kilvert (Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin Books, 1965).
Plutarch, Fall of the Roman Republic, trans. Rex Warner (Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin Books, 1958).
Polybius. The Rise of the Roman Empire, trans. Ian Scott-Kilvert (Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin Books, 1979).
Propertius, The Poems, trans. W. G. Shepherd (London: Penguin Books,1985).
Sallust, The Jugurthine War, The Conspiracy of Catiline, trans. S. A. Handford (Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin Books, 1963).
Terence, The Comedies, trans. Peter Brown (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006).
Virgil, The Aeneid, trans. C. Day-Lewis (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986).
Virgil, The Aeneid, trans. W. F. Jackson Knight (London: Penguin Books, 1956).
Virgil, The Georgics, trans. C. Day-Lewis (London: Jonathan Cape, 1940).
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The Cambridge Ancient History, vols. 7.2, 8, and 9 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989, 1989, and 1992).
Champion, Jeff, Pyrrhus of Epirus (Barnsley, UK: Pen and Sword Books, 2009).
Collins, Randall, Violence: A Micro-sociological Theory (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008).
Cornell, T. J., The Beginnings of Rome: Italy and Rome from the Bronze Age to the Punic Wars (c.1000264 BC) (London: Routledge, 1995).
Duggan, Alfred, He Died Old: Mithradates Eupator, King of Pontus (London: Faber, 1958).
Dyson, Stephen L., Rome: A Living Portrait of an Ancient City (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010).
Flaubert, Gustave, Salammbo, trans. Robert Goodyear and P. J. R. Wright (London: New English Library, 1962).
Frost, H., The Prefabricated Punic Warship, in H. Devijver and E. Lipinski, eds. Punic Wars (Louvain: Peeters Press, 1989).
Goldsworthy, Adrian, The Roman Army at War: 100 BCAD 200 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996).
, In the Name of Rome: The Men Who Won the Roman Empire (London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2003).
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, The History of Rome (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1978).
Green, Peter, Alexander of Macedon, (Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin Books, 1974).
, From Alexander to Actium: The Hellenistic Age (London: Thames and Hudson, 1990).
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Hopkins, K., and M. Beard, The Colosseum (London: Profile Books, 2006).
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Keppie, Lawrence, The Making of the Roman Army
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