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In modern historiography, ancient Rome encompasses the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC, the Roman Kingdom (753–509 BC), Roman Republic (509–27 BC), Roman Empire (27 BC– 395 AD), and the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.Ancient Rome began as an Italic settlement, traditionally dated to 753 BC, beside the River Tiber in the Italian Peninsula. The settlement grew into the city and polity of Rome, and came to control its neighbours through a combination of treaties and military strength. It eventually controlled the Italian Peninsula, assimilated the Greek culture of southern Italy (Magna Grecia) and the Etruscan culture, becoming a dominant power in the Mediterranean region and parts of Europe. It was among the largest empires in the ancient world, with an estimated 50 to 90 million inhabitants, roughly 20% of the world's population at the time. It covered around 5 million square kilometres (1.9 million square miles) at its height in AD 117.The Roman state evolved from an elective monarchy to a classical republic and then to an increasingly autocratic semi-elective military dictatorship during the Empire. Through conquest, cultural, and linguistic assimilation, at its height it controlled the North African coast, Egypt, Southern Europe, and most of Western Europe, the Balkans, Crimea, and much of the Middle East, including Anatolia, Levant, and parts of Mesopotamia and Arabia. It is often grouped into classical antiquity together with ancient Greece, and their similar cultures and societies are known as the Greco-Roman world. Ancient Roman civilisation has contributed to modern language, religion, society, technology, law, politics, government, warfare, art, literature, architecture, and engineering. Rome professionalised and expanded its military and created a system of government called res publica, the inspiration for modern republics such as the United States and France. It achieved impressive technological and architectural feats, such as the empire-wide construction of aqueducts and roads, as well as more grandiose monuments and facilities. Source: Wikipedia (en)
Works about Ancient Rome 18
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Rome, la fin d'un empire : de Caracalla à Théodoric, 212-fin du Ve siècle
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Monumenta et memoria. Estudios de epigrafía romana
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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
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Manual de derecho romano historia e instituciones
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Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
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The Venus Throw
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Les Hérésies
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Arms of Nemesis
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Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt
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Geschichte der antiken Ethnologie
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La documentation photographique
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Héliogabale, ou L'anarchiste couronné
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Dictionnaire des Antiquités Grecques et Romaines
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Letter of Daniele Clario to Giuliano Maffei, the archbishop of Dubrovnik (15 October 1505)
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Fortunas Rache
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Die Legion des Raben
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Der Schatz Salomos
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Ben Hur
Narratives set in Ancient Rome 48
- Lustrum
- Geography
- The Secret of the Kingdom
- Count Belisarius
- The Ides of March
- Memoirs of Hadrian
- Spartacus
- Imperium
- The Roman
- The Last Legion
- Lavinia
- God Was Born in Exile
- The Robe
- I, Claudius
- Quo Vadis
- A Struggle for Rome
- Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
- The Last Days of Pompeii
- Pompeii
- Fabiola
- Clélie, histoire romaine
- Murena
- Cassio
- The Death of the Gods
- An Imaginary Life
- Augustus
- Birds of Prey
- The Kingdom of the Wicked
- Raptor
- Caesar's Daughter
- Envoy Extraordinary
- Helena
- Household Gods
- I Am a Barbarian
- I Loved Tiberius
- Justinian
- King Jesus
- Master and God
- The Course of Honour
- The Forgotten Daughter
- The Light Bearer
- The Stone Rose
- Hypatia
- Dictator
- The Big Fisherman
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