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A HISTORY OF ANCIENT ROME IN 100 LIVES - PHILIP...

Discover the lives of the ancient Romans  pieced together from inscriptions  discarded letters
biographies and myth over two thousand years of history. The Roman empire witnessed a huge
diversity of human experience over its history. At its pinnacle  it exerted its rule across
Europe  Africa and the Middle East  from Britannia to the Black Sea. In this collection of 100
lives  Philip Matyszak and Joanne Berry give voice not only to famed rulers and generals whose
names and deeds have been enshrined in classical texts but also to the ordinary citizens -
centurions  scholars  Christian martyrs and civil servants - who made up the fabric of Roman
society. The biographies of these individuals  whose stories range from the happy and
uneventful to the tragic and dramatic  are pieced together from ancient art  artefacts and
myths. Matyszak and Berry illuminate the sometimes surprising exploits of Rome's women  such as
Amazonia  a sword-swinging gladiator  and Metila  a priestess of the cult of Cymbele. Romans of
every class and creed are represented  from Faustulus  a shepherd said to have adopted the
infant Romulus and Remus  to the poet Virgil  whose words still echo down the ages. Each of
these lives forms part of a larger picture  together making up a rich mosaic that gives us a
glimpse of what it meant to be a Roman.

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