Describes the customs, religion and beliefs, arts and culture, economy, and end of ancient Rome.

Today, we refer to Christianity's conquest of the West as a triumph. Nixey offers a history of the rise of Christianity in the classical world that focuses on its terrible cost, in terms of violence and dogmatic intolerance, that helped bring upon the dark ages. She shows how, in an orgy of destruction, Jesus's followers helped to pitch Western civilization into a thousand-year-long decline.

"Filled with fascinating facts and engaging illustrations, Meet the Incredible Romans explores the everyday from the baths to the delicacies of doormice, to the lives of Emperors, soldiers and gladiators!"--Provided by publisher.

A masterly investigation into the Classical roots of Western civilization, taking the reader on an illuminating journey from Troy, Athens, and Sparta to Utopia, Alexandria, and Rome. An authoritative and accessible study of the foundations, development, and enduring legacy of the cultures of Greece and Rome, centered on ten locations of seminal importance in the development of Classical civilization. Starting with Troy, where history, myth and cosmology...

What sort of men were the Roman emperors (and were they all men)? What background and training, if any, prepared them for their awesome responsibilities? What depravities did they display? And what achievements can they claim: laws passed, monuments built, lands and peoples conquered? Dive into these questions and more with this introduction to the complex personalities of emperors such as Augustus, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero. These thirty-six

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