Anthony Everitt - The Rise of Rome

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‘Everitt takes [listeners] on a remarkable journey into the creation of the great civilization's political institutions, cultural traditions, and social hierarchy…. [E]ngaging work that will captivate and inform from beginning to end.”
— Booklist Starred Review 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 world’s preeminent power. Everitt fashions the story of Rome’s 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 Rome’s 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 Rome’s 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 Romans—and non-Romans—who left their mark on the world out of which the mighty empire grew: Cincinnatus, Rome’s 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.
Rome’s decline and fall have long fascinated historians, but the story of how the empire was won is every bit as compelling. With
, one of our most revered chroniclers of the ancient world tells that tale in a way that will galvanize, inform, and enlighten modern readers.

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NOTES

Abbreviations

Acad

Cicero, Marcus Tullius; Academica ( Academics )

App Civ

Appian, Civil Wars

App Han

Appian, War with Hannibal

App Mith

Appian, Mithridatic Wars

App Pun

Appian, Punic Wars

App Samn

Appian, Samnite Wars

App Sic

Appian, Sicilian Wars

App Span

Appian, Spanish Wars

App Syr

Appian, Syrian Wars

Arist Pol

Aristotle Politics

Arr

Arrian (Lucius Flavius Arrianus Xenophon), Anabasis of Alexander

Arr Ind

Arrian (Lucius Flavius Arrianus Xenophon), Indica ( Indian Matters )

Art

Artemidorus, Oneirocritica

Asc

Asconius, Commentaries on Five Speeches of Cicero

Ath

Athenaeus of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae ( Learned Banqueters )

Aug Civ

Augustine, De civitate dei ( On the City of God )

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