The History of Ancient Rome

Hold the glory—and infamy—of ancient Rome in the palm of your hand in this extraordinary and accessible story of history's greatest superpower, as told through humanity's most universal object: the coin.

Alastair Sooke takes an in-depth look at the art of the Roman Empire.

The Historians of Ancient Rome is the most comprehensive collection of ancient sources for Roman history available in a single English volume. After a general introduction on Roman historical writing, extensive passages from more than a dozen Greek and Roman historians and biographers trace the history of Rome over more than a thousand years: from the city's foundation by Romulus in 753 B.C.E. (Livy) to Constantine's edict of toleration for Christianity (313 C.E.)