- Peace, Political stability, Rome, history, empire, 30 b.c.-476 a.d., History
The Pax Romana is famous for having provided a remarkable period of peace and stability, rarely seen before or since. Yet the Romans were first and foremost conquerors, imperialists who took by force a vast empire stretching from the Euphrates in the east to the Atlantic coast in the west.
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Grave, classical in form, epic and earnest.
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- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Adrian Goldsworthy
- First published
- 2016
- Pages
- 513
- Publisher
- Tantor and Blackstone Publishing, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, Yale University Press
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781474604376
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