Rome: Volume 2

by Ada Gabucci

Book Overview

This pocket-size reference draws on the vast treasures of this ancient civilization to illustrate the remarkable achievements of one of the great empires of the West, from the traditional date of Rome's founding--754 BCE--until the fall of the Western Empire in 476 CE, the year in which the last emperor, the boy Romulus Augustus, was deposed by the Goths and the imperial insignia was sent to Constantinople. Rome opens with a section on the major personages,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520252659
• ISBN13: 9780520252653
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.3" x 7.9"