History of Rome
by Michael Grant | 
The Romans
by Mary T. Boatwright |
Emperors of Rome
by David Potter | 
How Rome Fell
by Adrian Goldsworthy |
The Punic Wars
by Adrian Goldsworthy | 
In the Name of Rome
by Adrian Goldsworthy |
The Spartacus War
by Barry Strauss | 
The Fall of the Roman Empire
by Peter Heather |
The Rise of Rome
by Anthony Everitt | 
The Roman Revolution
by Ronald Syme |
The Roman History: The Reign of Augustus
by Cassius Dio | 
SPQR
by Mary Beard | 
The Fall of the Roman Republic
by Plutarch |
The Civil Wars
by Julius Caesar | 
The Climax Of Rome
by Michael Grant | 
Dead Wake
by Erik Larson | 
One Summer: America, 1927
by Bill Bryson | 
Six Frigates
by Ian W. Toll |
102 Minutes
by Jim Dwyer | 
The History of Jihad
by Robert Spencer |
Ancient Rome is a concise, comprehensive political and military history of the Roman Republic and Empire, from the origins of the city in the Italian Iron Age, until the deposition of the last emperor in 476 AD. Christopher Mackay describes how military events undermined the political institutions of the Republic, how the Empire was administered and controlled, why Christianity was adopted as the state religion under Constantine, and how military and economic pressures of the third and fourth centuries eventually led to the downfall of the Western empire. Illustrated with relevant art works from Rome's long history, this volume serves as an up-to-date overview of one of the most extraordinary civilizations in human history.