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An excellent guide... An elegant, swift and faultless introduction to the subject'
An excellent guide... An elegant, swift and faultless introduction to the subject'
[An] engaging work that will captivate and inform from beginning to end
An agreeable primer in ancient history
A riveting, magisterial account... [Everitt] tells the tale in a way that will galvanise, inform and enlighten modern readers'
Lively and readable... Roman history has an uncanny ability to resonate with contemporary events'
Anthony Everitt is a former visiting professor in the visual and performing arts at Nottingham Trent University and previously served as secretary general of the Arts Council of Great Britain. He has written extensively on European culture and history, and is the author of Cicero, Augustus, Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome, The Rise of Rome, and The Rise of Athens. Everitt lives near Colchester, England's first recorded town, founded by the Romans.
Anthony Everitt is a former visiting professor in the visual and performing arts at Nottingham Trent University and previously served as secretary general of the Arts Council of Great Britain. He has written extensively on European culture and history, and is the author of Cicero, Augustus, Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome, The Rise of Rome, and The Rise of Athens. Everitt lives near Colchester, England's first recorded town, founded by the Romans.