The Roman Empire. Foundations of Western Civilization

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There is hardly a person so frivolous and indifferent to the life around him who would not be interested in the question of what means, by what methods of politics, the Romans, in a period of less than 53 years, defeated almost all the countries of the inhabited world and subjugated them to their single authority - a fact in history unparalleled,” noted the ancient Greek historian Polybius, and he was right. How did Roman civilization begin? How did Rome conquer Europe and the Mediterranean? The largest Russian specialist in the history of Ancient Rome, Robert Yuryevich Vipper, in his fundamental work "Roman Civilization" gives a broad panorama of ancient Roman life in all its aspects from the time of the birth of Roman civilization in the XNUMXth century BC. e. and until the later period of the principate of Augustus. The author describes in detail the conditions for the emergence of the great Roman Empire, shows why it became the basis of what we today call Western civilization.

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Publication language: Russian

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