Ebook {Epub PDF} Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire by Simon Baker

This is the story of the greatest empire the world has ever known. Simon Baker charts the rise and fall of the world's first superpower, focusing on six momentous turning points that shaped Roman history. Welcome to Rome as you've never seen it before - awesome and splendid, gritty and squalid/5(). Focusing on six turning points in Roman history, Simon Baker's absorbing narrative charts the rise and fall of a political machine unmatched in its brutality, genius, and lust for power. From the 4/5(3).  · Baker's work is an easily readable/digestible tome that provides a broad history of the Roman Empire from the mythical founding of Rome by Remus and Romulus and the founding of the Roman Republic through to the founding of the Roman Empire and into the era of the Pax Romana, and then the slow decline of the Roman Empire from the 4th Century onwards up to the ultimate collapse 4/5.

The Romans and their empire at its height in CE was the most extensive political and social structure in western civilization. By CE the empire had grown too vast to be ruled from the central government at Rome and so was divided by Emperor Diocletian ( CE) into a Western and an Eastern Empire. Ancient Rome is the story of the greatest empire the world has ever known. Focusing on six turning points in Roman history, Simon Baker's absorbing narrative charts the rise and fall of a political machine unmatched in its brutality, genius, and lust for power. From the conquest of the Mediterranean in the 3rd century BC to the destruction of. Simon Baker, author of Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of An Empire, on LibraryThing LibraryThing is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers Home Groups Talk More Zeitgeist.

Simon Baker read Classics at Oxford University. In he joined the BBC’s History Unit where he has worked on Timewatch and a wide range of programmes about the classical world. He is the Development Producer on the BBC One series Ancient Rome — The Rise and Fall of an Empire. Focusing on six turning points in Roman history, Simon Baker's absorbing narrative charts the rise and fall of a political machine unmatched in its brutality, genius, and lust for power. From the conquest of the Mediterranean in the 3rd century BC to the destruction of the empire at the hands of barbarian invaders years later, we discover the pivotal episodes in Roman history. Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire: With Lyall B. Watson, James D'Arcy, Sean Pertwee, Michael Sheen. A doc-drama covering the rise and the fall of the Roman world including the founding by Julius Caesar and the building of Rome by Nero.