Simon Baker

Praise for Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire

Lively and well-researched: an excellent read

Peter Heather, author of The Fall of the Roman Empire

This is a history of Rome that combines vivid drama and a gripping storyline with a keen alertness to bigger historical questions

Mary Beard, Professor of Classics at Cambridge University

Brings the distant past to fully fleshed life

Good Book Guide

Lively and well-researched: an excellent read

Peter Heather, author of The Fall of the Roman Empire

This is a history of Rome that combines vivid drama and a gripping storyline with a keen alertness to bigger historical questions

Mary Beard, Professor of Classics at Cambridge University

Brings the distant past to fully fleshed life

Good Book Guide

Lively and well-researched: an excellent read

Peter Heather, author of The Fall of the Roman Empire

This is a history of Rome that combines vivid drama and a gripping storyline with a keen alertness to bigger historical questions

Mary Beard, Professor of Classics at Cambridge University

Brings the distant past to fully fleshed life

Good Book Guide