Puede que el Imperio Romano haya caído hace miles de años, pero las lecciones y el legado que dejó siguen vivos hasta el día de hoy. Empezando en un pequeño asentamiento a orillas del Río Tíber, Roma se convirtió en una fuerza colosal e imparable. En su apogeo, el Imperio dominaba el mundo desde Europa, Asia Occidental, el norte de África y muchos más territorios. Nunca más el mundo vería una potencia con tanta influencia. En esta narración épica, La Historia Vivida nos sumerge de manera intrigante en la historia romana, leyendas, hechos, mitos y mucho más. El estudio de la historia romana, que abarca miles de años, es amplio y complejo. Al igual que los propios antiguos romanos, para poder estudiarla hay que seguir una estructura y tener la mente abierta. Al hacerlo, podemos empezar a desvelar los secretos del Imperio Romano En la primera parte de este libro encontrarás; La cronología de la historia romana - ¿Cómo empezó todo? y ¿CY cómo terminó? Personajes - Cualquier estudio serio de Roma debe comenzar con una mirada a los emperadores, los gladiadores y los personajes que dieron forma a su destino. ¿Cómo era la vida en la antigua Roma? Luego, en la segunda parte y en adelante encontrarás; El ejército romano era uno de los más poderosos del mundo. ¿Cómo llegaron a serlo? La victoria y la derrota. Mitología - Adéntrate en el fascinante mundo de la mitología romana. La caída del Imperio ¡Todo esto y mucho, mucho más en un formato agradable de leer! Así que, si buscas una historia definitiva del Imperio Romano, ¡este es el libro!

This 2004 book looks at the writing and reading of history during the early middle ages.

This essential document for the study of Roman history traces the story of Rome from Romulus and the foundations of Rome to the reign of the Emperor Tiberius. It is especially valuable to historians and students for its vivid eyewitness account of the dramatic years that saw the Roman Empire emerge from the chaos left by the shattered Republic. Rendered with the non-specialist in mind, the translation—the first English language translation in nearly ninety years—seeks to remain faithful to the original while avoiding technical and obscure jargon. The volume includes a substantial introduction to Velleius' life and times, and to the literary context of his historical work, as well as generous and detailed notes on the text, a bibliography, map, glossary of unfamiliar terms, and an index.

The leading ancient world historian and author of Caesar presents “an engrossing account of how the Roman Empire grew and operated” (Kirkus). Renowned for his biographies of Julius Caesar and Augustus, Adrian Goldsworthy turns his attention to the Roman Empire as a whole during its height in the first and second centuries AD. Though this time is known as the Roman Peace, or Pax Romana, the Romans were fierce imperialists who took by force vast lands stretching from the Euphrates to the Atlantic coast. The Romans ruthlessly won peace not through coexistence but through dominance; millions died and were enslaved during the creation of their empire. Pax Romana examines how the Romans came to control so much of the world and asks whether traditionally favorable images of the Roman peace are true. Goldsworthy vividly recounts the rebellions of the conquered, examining why they broke out, why most failed, and how they became exceedingly rare. He reveals that hostility was just one reaction to the arrival of Rome and that from the outset, conquered peoples collaborated, formed alliances, and joined invaders, causing resistance movements to fade away.

This volume analyses the importance of history, the textual resources of the past and the integration of Christian and imperial Rome into the cultural memory of early medieval Europe within the wider question of identity formation. The case studies in this book shed new light on the process of codification and modification of cultural heritage in the light of the transmission of texts and the extant manuscript evidence from the early Middle Ages. The authors demonstrate how particular texts and their early medieval manuscript representatives in Italy, Francia, Saxony and Bavaria not only reflect ethnic, social and cultural identities but themselves contributed to the creation of identities, gave meaning to social practice, and were often intended to inspire, guide, change, or prevent action, directly or indirectly. These texts are shown to be part of a cultural effort to shape the present by restructuring the past.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1838.