A new historical survey that recasts the 'fall of the Roman Republic' as part of the rise of a uniquely successful world state.

In April 44 BC the eighteen-year-old Gaius Octavius landed in Italy and launched his take-over of the Roman world. Defeating first Caesar's assassins, then the

In Rome, Global Dreams, and the International Origins of an Empire, Sarah Davies explores how the Roman Republic evolved, in ideological terms, into an “Empir

A study of the reign of Claudius (AD 41-54), exploring what it can tell us about the developing Roman Empire.

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