Rome
20 Feb 08

This grand, scholarly narrative exposes Rome as a bloodthirsty system of robbery with violence; fed by war, exploitation and human misery, it contained the seeds of its own destruction from the outset

Compelling and provocative, Rome: Empire of the Eagles allows no measure for “what the Romans did for us” arguments. Instead Dr Faulkner shows that, far from being the bestower of civilisation that many historians would have us believe, Rome was an empire built on war, massacre and greed, which imploded due to its merciless policy of ruthless expansionism.

He lays bare a brutal empire from which we should learn the lesson that violence and exploitation only lead to more killing, enslavement, and poverty. A lesson our modern empire-builders would do well to heed.

He also shows it to be a system riddled with conflict and tension, where the ruling elite creamed off taxes and rents from the countryside to fund their army, their towns and their villas; leaving the mass of people - the serfs, slaves and poor - as victims of the exploitation that made the empire possible.

Guy de la Bédoyère, co-presenter of Channel 4's Time Team , commented that: “Dr Faulkner, for whom Augustus was 'a truly disgusting man', never sits on the fence - this unashamedly partisan book is a must for anyone who wants to be challenged and outraged by our familiar image of Rome's contribution to world history.”

	Rome
	Author	Neil Faulkner
	Pub Date	18 Jan 2008
	Price	£21.99
	Publisher	Longman
	ISBN10	0582784956
	ISBN13	9780582784956
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