About this Book

Beginning with the fall of the Roman Republic in the late first century B.C., this absorbing volume by a respected classical historian examines the Augustan Age, the achievements and intrigues of the early emperors, the expansion of Rome during the Pax Romana, the near collapse of Rome in the third century, its rebirth as the Later Empire, the rise of the Christian emperors, and the fall of western Rome in the fifth and sixth centuries.