Adrian Keith Goldsworthy
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
ix, 513 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Description
Best-selling author Adrian Goldsworthy turns his attention to the Pax Romana, the famous peace and prosperity brought by the Roman Empire at its height in the first and second centuries AD. Yet the Romans were conquerors, imperialists who took by force a vast empire stretching from the Euphrates to the Atlantic coast. Ruthless, Romans won peace not through coexistence but through dominance; millions died and were enslaved during the creation of their...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Audio
Pub. Date
2015, ©2015
Physical Desc
15 CDs (18.5 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The author discusses how the Roman Empire--an empire without a serious rival--rotted from within, its rulers and institutions putting short-term ambition and personal survival over the wider good of the state.