Includes bibliographical references and index

Early Rome and Italy / Michael Crawford -- The expansion of Rome / Elizabeth Rawson -- The first Roman literature / P.G. McC. Brown -- Cicero and Rome / Miriam Griffin -- The poets of the late republic / Robin Nisbet -- The founding of the empire / David Stockton -- The arts of government / Nicholas Purcell -- Augustan poetry and society / R.O.A.M. Lyne -- Virgil / Jasper Griffin -- Roman historians / Andrew Lintott -- The arts of prose : the early empire / Donald Russell -- Silver Latin poetry and the Latin novel / Richard Jenkyns -- Later philosophy / Anthony Meredith -- The arts of living / Roger Ling -- Roman life and society / John Matthews -- Roman art and architecture / R.J.A. Wilson -- Envoi : on taking leave of antiquity / Henry Chadwick

This authoritative and compelling work tells the story of the rise of Rome, from its origins as a cluster of villages to the foundation of the Roman Empire by Augustus to its consolidation in the first two centuries A.D. Numerous b&w illustrations. of color plates

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