Bibliograph

The rise of Rome, the making of the world's greatest empire, by Anthony Everitt ; read by Stephen Thorne

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The rise of Rome, the making of the world's greatest empire, by Anthony Everitt ; read by Stephen Thorne

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eng

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Literary text for sound recordings

history

Main title

The rise of Rome

Oclc number

857533799

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by Anthony Everitt ; read by Stephen Thorne

Sub title

the making of the world's greatest empire

Summary

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

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