The dream of Rome
The Romans created the most successful and longest lasting empire in history. They conquered and civilised a territory that stretched from Scotland to Libya, from Portugal to Iraq - and then ran it for more than 400 years. The dream of Rome has lived on in the memory of European leaders ever since, and one after the other they have tried to imitate the Roman achievement. Charlemagne tried it. Napoleon tried it. Mussolini tried it. And now the European Union can be seen as the latest attempt to rediscover the unity of the Roman empire. So how did the Roman's pull it off?
210 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780007224418, 0007224419
67865987
Pt. 1. The impact of Rome. Apocalypse in the forest
A distant Roman mirror
Pt. 2. At the centre of the web. A master of propaganda
Augustus Caesar and Jesus Christ
Pt. 3. How the Romans did it. Citizens
The inheritance from Greece
Winning over the elites
The Roman economic community: pax means tax
The approximation of taste
The adventures of Lucco the Gaul
The games
The single currency
Pt. 4. What went wrong. Christians, barbarians, and barbarian Christians
TV tie-in