Roman Civilization. Part 2

“Surely there will hardly be a person so frivolous and indifferent to life around them that they would not be interested in the question of what means and what methods Roman politics, in a period of less than 53 years, used to subdue almost all the countries of the inhabited world and bring them under a single unified rule—a fact in history without precedent,” the ancient Greek historian Polybius observed, and he was right.

How did Roman civilization originate? How did Rome conquer Europe and the Mediterranean?

In his fundamental work, “Roman Civilization,” Robert Yuryevich Wipper—this country’s leading expert on the history of Ancient Rome—offers a broad panorama of ancient Roman life in all its aspects, from the beginnings of Roman civilization in the 5th century BCE to the later period of Augustus’s principate. The author describes in detail the conditions that gave rise to the great Roman Empire and shows why it became the foundation of what we today call Western civilization.

The book presented here is the second part.