History of Rome, Introbooks Team
History of Rome, Introbooks Team
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History of Rome

Author: Introbooks Team

Narrator: Andrea Giordani

Unabridged: 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: IntroBooks

Published: 05/14/2019

Categories: Nonfiction, Art


Synopsis

The Roman Empire is one of the highest political accomplishments in the Western civilization. Rome has always been known for magnificent constructions, legends, rich cultures and mighty emperors who overthrew kingdoms. Rome dominated the Western Mediterranean and in 27 BC Octavian, established the powerful Roman Empire under him. The empire thrived and attained a population of one million becoming the first to have reached such extraordinary number, in the history.Grandiose and splendour of the Romans started to fall in time and by the 6th century the population fell to as less as 30,000 which further fell to 20,000 when it was influenced by Papal Schism and Avignon Papacy.Rome was almost lost in the medieval times but 15th and 16th centuries saw it gain its lost finery once again. From the Sistine Chapel to the renowned St. Peter’s Basilica, Renaissance architecture was in its full bloom. Roman emperor, Charles V carried out a military coup – ‘Sack of Rome’, which disrupted the growth of the city but the Papacy restated itself and the city flourished once again.Rummaged by many political games in the 17th and 18th century, Rome is a now the capital of Italy and the Lazio Region.  

Reviews

Goodreads review by Monty on June 07, 2025

Mommsen had a colossal reputation in his day as the greatest scholar of Rome since Gibbon. The style is not as stilted as I feared, even though this is a Victorian translation from the German. I read it on my Kindle, as a free download from Project Gutenberg, and although it has been valiantly prepa......more

Goodreads review by Ivan on July 04, 2018

Invano si cercherebbero tracce di quello che abbiamo imparato a scuola sui re di Roma, da Romolo fino ai Tarquini: Mommsen li ha banditi dalla sua storia di Roma in quanto mito, favola, fola, racconto non documentabile scientificamente. Ciò che non è immediatamente classificabile come fatto document......more

Goodreads review by Mart on November 16, 2019

Excellent......more

Goodreads review by A.J. on October 10, 2015

Well, I just stayed up longer than I wanted to finish a massive review of this that I had worked on over the past few days, only to have Goodreads log me out of my account and lose all trace of said review after I pressed save. I mean, we're all familiar with the random cruelties of an internet cras......more

Goodreads review by Jazzy on January 30, 2020

Well written, well researched, well done.......more