Summary
"Ancient Rome was an imposing city even by modern standards, a sprawling imperial metropolis of more than a million inhabitants, a "mixture of luxury and filth, liberty and exploitation, civic pride and murderous civil war" that served as the seat of power for an empire that spanned from Spain to Sy... Full description
- Prologue : the history of Rome
- Cicero's finest hour
- In the beginning
- The kings of Rome
- Rome's great leap forward
- A wider world
- New politics
- From empire to emperors
- The home front
- The transformations of Augustus
- Fourteen emperors
- The haves and have-nots
- Rome outside Rome
- Epilogue : the first Roman millennium.