Full name: Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

Author: Tom Holland Year: 2003 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Award winners Culture: Italy Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads OpenLibrary eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781400078974 1400078970

In 49 B.C., the seven hundred fifth year since the founding of Rome, Julius Caesar crossed a small border river called the Rubicon and plunged Rome into cataclysmic civil war. Tom Holland's enthralling account tells the story of Caesar's generation, witness to the twilight of the Republic and its bloody transformation into an empire. From Cicero, Spartacus, and Brutus, to Cleopatra, Virgil, and Augustus, here are some of the most legendary figures in history brought thrillingly to life. Combining verve and freshness with scrupulous scholarship, is not only an engrossing history of this pivotal era but a uniquely resonant portrait of a great civilization in all its extremes of self-sacrifice and rivalry, decadence and catastrophe, intrigue, war, and world-shaking ambition. Similar books: SPQR by Mary Beard How Rome Fell by Adrian Goldsworthy The Fall of the Roman Empire by Peter Heather Emperors of Rome by David Potter Pax Romana by Adrian Goldsworthy Dynasty by Tom Holland The Roman Way by Edith Hamilton History of Rome by Michael Grant The Day of the Barbarians by Alessandro Barbero The Rise of Rome by Anthony Everitt Rome by Greg Woolf The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon The Ruin of the Roman Empire by James J. O'Donnell 69 A.D. by Gwyn Morgan The Romans by Mary T. Boatwright The Battle of Adwa by Raymond Jonas All or Nothing by Jonathan Steinberg Rome's Vestal Virgins by Robin Lorsch Wildfang The Ruin of Kasch by Roberto Calasso How to Do It by Rudolph M. Bell