Customer Review: This massive history, covering a thousand years of Roman history in 558 triple-size pages, is extremely thorough and marvellously rich. Broad in scope and scrupulous in detail, it is also very well written, a true classic of historical prose. Though several decades old the work never feels out of... more info
Customer Review: This book was first published in 1940. Nevertheless, this is a well written and very useful book on the social and cultural side of ancient Greece and Rome. Aimed at the popular reader, rather than the scholar, it covers everything from the geography and political background, to the commercial... more info