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Chapter Seventy Two: The Empire at Peace
The Golden Age of Rome! Hadrian ensures that the Empire will in safe hands for another forty years.
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Chapter Seventy One: Travels and Walls
Trajan’s successor could not be more different from the great man. In his own way, though, he...
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The Myths and History of Greece and Rome has achieved a million downloads. Thanks to everyone for...
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Chapter Sixty Nine: The Perils of the Perfectionist
There is nothing worse than a micromanager, even if his intentions are good… except an...
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Chapter Sixty Eight: Two Good Flavians and One Big Bang
Vespasian and his son get to grips with running a huge Empire. Meanwhile Mount Vesuvius gets to...
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Chapter Sixty Seven: The Year of the Four Emperors
In 69AD four different men held the highest office in the Roman world… and they weren’t sharing!!
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Chapter Sixty Six: From Hero to Nero
Power is dangerous in the hands of the very young. The sixteen year-old Nero is given absolute...
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Chapter Sixty Five: Uncle Claudius
Things get a bit weird as the most unlikely candidate becomes emperor. The strangeness continues...
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Chapter Sixty Four: Mr Grumpy and Mr Crazy!
The seamless transition is exactly that: seamless! The personal foibles of Augustus’s successors,...
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Chapter Sixty Three: The Julio-Claudians
The succession has been on Augustus’s mind from early in his tenure as emperor. Death, misfortune...
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Chapter Sixty Two: The First Emperor
Octavian’s political skills dovetail beautifully with the practical and organisation skills of...
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Chapter Sixty One: Antony and Cleopatra
Who will come out on top? Will it be Caesar’s right hand man or Caesar’s adopted heir? And what...
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They’re all there: Et tu Brute; I came, I saw I, conquered, etc etc. Julius Caesar rises like a...
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Chapter Fifty Nine: And Then There Was One
The very foundations of the Republic are shaken by three more men: one in particular!
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Chapter Fifty Eight: Ten Men Who Destroyed the Republic
The Republic worked when Rome was small and manageable. The conquest of vast tracts of territory,...
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The Romans come up against their most formidable opponent yet. The Carthaginian general, Hannibal...
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Chapter Fifty Six: Myth Becomes History
The Roman Republic is founded but its early years are still the stuff of legend. Only after the...
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Chapter Fifty Five: The Seven Kings of Rome
Time to meet Romulus and his successors. The foundation of Rome and the following 250 years are...
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