Republican Rome

By H.L. Havell and H.L. Havell

Book Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1861960050
• ISBN13: 9781861960054
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Oracle
• Length: 563 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Enjoyable Survey

This is the history book you fell in love with as a youth. A brilliant overview, broken down into bite-sized chunks for easy digestion, and chock full of lavish hand-drawn illustrations (and dim black and white photographs).Havel wrote with an air sadly lacking in most late 20th century historians. He very clearly enjoyed his subject matter and his enthusiasm carries over to the reader. There is almost nothing revelatory here - Havel is no Will Durant with prose to leave you breathless, or a Christian Meier to make you reflect on the very nature of human ambition and government. Rather, Havel is a fine narrator, relating the events of Ancient Rome in a manner always enjoyable and never dull.