9 months ago
This is an excellent piece of work, the most all-encompassing single volume on ancient Rome that I’ve run across. Grant is particularly good in the earliest eras of the Roman world.
It is very apparent that the greatest strengths of the polity were there almost from the start—the rule of law, the voracious absorption of territory and the clemency with which its conquered peoples received in the interest of expanding the Roman population, as well as the patron/client structure of social… + read more