The Roman World - Tapa blanda

Rome continues to influence our daily lives more than 1500 years after the formal end of the Roman Empire. The republican, Celtic and hellenistic background to the Empire is examined in this book which also looks at the development of the imperial army and its deployment on the frontiers. Urban and rural life and society and the legal system which bound them together are considered, as are the varied religious beliefs of the great heterogenous mass of people which made up the population of the Empire. All the pictures have been chosen to illustrate the detailed points of the text.