Ebook {Epub PDF} History of Rome by Michael Grant

History of Rome by Grant, Michael, Publication date Publisher New York: Scribner's Collection inlibrary Language English. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index Etruscan Rome -- The unity of Italy and Rome -- Rome against Carthage -- The imperial republic -- The fall of the republic -- Caesar and User Interaction Count: Michael Grant was an English classisist, numismatist, and author of numerous popular books on ancient history. His translation of Tacitus’s Annals of Imperial Rome remains a standard of the work. He once described himself as "one of the very few freelances in the /5(5). History of Rome by Grant, Michael. Scribner's, Hardcover. Good.

History of Rome. Michael Grant. Scribner's, - Rome - pages. 3 Reviews. From a small Iron Age settlement on the banks of the Tiber, Rome grew to become the center of an Empire that dominated the Western world. Powerful in war, Rome was magnificent in peace, so that even today her poets, artists, philosophers and historians exert their. Michael Grant's "The World of Rome: The History of the Roman Empire from BC to AD" is a book I would describe as a good introduction, useful as a foundation for someone who needs a broad overview, but anything but a page-turner. Michael Grant was an English classisist, numismatist, and author of numerous popular books on ancient history. His translation of Tacitus's Annals of Imperial Rome remains a standard of the work. He once described himself as "one of the very few freelances in the field of ancient history: a rare phenomenon".

Michael Grant's "History of Rome" is a solid but unexciting history of political Rome from the Etruscans through the fall of Rome in the fifth century. Grant tells a thorough history about the leaders and expansion of Rome, but fails to breathe life into the Roman Republic and Empire. Grant's comprehensive history tells all of the struggles for power during the Republic and the Empire, recounting every emperor's reign. History of Rome Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Share to Twitter. History of Rome by Grant, Michael, Publication date This is an excellent one volume history of Rome from its' Etruscan beginnings through Republic and Empire through the fall of the Western empire. Michael Grant was "one of the few classical historians to win respect from [both] academics and a lay readership"(The Times, 13 October ). Immensely prolific, he wrote and edited more than 70 books of nonfiction and translation, covering topics from Roman coinage and the eruption of Mount Vesuvius to the Gospels.