From Republic to Ruin

A small settlement of huts on the hills above the Tiber grew, over twelve centuries, into the master of the known world — and then, in the West, fell. From Republic to Ruin tells the whole story of Rome: how its power was won, held, transformed, and at last lost.E.B Cohen traces the full arc — the founding myth and the kings; the Republic that conquered an empire but could not govern it and tore i...