Reviews

"This is the best one-volume narrative history of Rome between King Tarquin and Emperor Augustus I have ever read. The story of Rome's experiment with republicanism--peopled by such giants as Caesar, Pompey, Cato and Cicero--is told with perfect freshness, fine wit and true scholarship."
--Andrew Roberts "Not since Ronald Syme's "The Roman Revolution" has there been such an original and enlivening piece of Roman history. Tom Holland has the rare gift of making deep scholarship accessible and exciting. A brilliant and completely absorbing study."
--A.N. Wilson