ISBN: 9781933834566

Description: pages cm.

Notes: Includes index.

Contents:

• Introduction
• Timelines
• The Etruscans
• Beginnings of Rome
• War with Carthage
• Early years of crisis
• Republican Rome
• Rise of Caesar
• Empire of Augustus
• Provinces and frontiers
• The emperors
• Imperial Rome
• The later empire
• Geography of the empire
• Africa
• Sites : Leptis Magna, Timgad
• Spain and Portugal
• Gaul and Germany
• Sites : Eestr'es-Sur-Noye, N'mes, Trier
• Britain
• Sites : Silchester, Hadrian's Wall
• The Danube
• Greece and the Balkans
• Sites : Athens, Corinth
• Asia Minor
• Sites : Ephesus, Aphrodisias
• The exotic East
• Sites : Palmyra, Masada
• Egypt.

LCCN: 2009016805

Control Number: 706142

Series:

• Facts at your fingertips
• Facts at your fingertips.

Subjects: Rome -- Civilization.

Other Authors: Dalal, Anita.