Romans Who Shaped Rome: 15 Most Influential People of Ancient Rome
Biographies of Statesmen, Generals, Emperors, and Reformers Who Forged an EmpireBy Jacob Abbott, A. H. Beesly, Edward Spencer Beesly, W. Lucas Collins, Evelyn S. Shuckburgh, John Charles Tarver, Philo, Stephen Phillips, Tacitus, Georg Ebers, George Lang, John B. Firth
Length98h 52m
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Romans Who Shaped Rome assembles biographical portraits of the republic and empire's decisive figures, tracing the interplay of ambition, military command, civic virtue, rhetoric, and autocracy. Its range extends from classical historical testimony to lucid nineteenth-century popular scholarship, allowing statesmen, reformers, emperors, and cultural actors to emerge through contrasting narrative registers. Episodes of constitutional crisis and imperial expansion give the volume particular force. The collection joins ancient witnesses with later historians, educators, translators, and literary writers. Tacitus and Philo bring perspectives shaped by the political and intellectual worlds of the early empire, while Abbott, the Beeslys, Collins, Shuckburgh, Tarver, Phillips, Ebers, Lang, and Firth represent Victorian-era efforts to render antiquity intelligible to broad English-speaking audiences. Together, these voices connect Roman biography to traditions of classical historiography, moral exemplarity, and modern historical interpretation. Recommended for students and general readers alike, this volume offers a valuable opportunity to encounter Rome through a multiplicity of styles, sources, and judgments. Its varied portraits invite comparison between republican ideals and imperial realities, while fostering a sustained dialogue about leadership, power, memory, and historical influence.
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GenreBiography and Memoir, Literary Classics
Length98 hrs 52 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
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Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Great Empires of the Ancient East (Annotated)
2Romulus
3PREFACE
4Chapter III.
5Chapter V.
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6Chapter VI.
7Chapter VIII.
8Chapter IX.
9Chapter XI.
10Chapter XII.
11The Gracchi Marius and Sulla
12PREFACE
13CHAPTER I.
14CHAPTER III.
15CHAPTER V.
16CHAPTER IX.
17CHAPTER XIII.
18LIST OF PHRASES
19Catiline
20I. CATILINE.
21Cicero
22CHAPTER I.
23CHAPTER IV.
24CHAPTER VIII.
25CHAPTER XI.
26Julius Caesar
27PREFACE.
28CHAPTER IV.
29CHAPTER VI.
30CHAPTER IX.
31CHAPTER XII.
32Augustus
33CHAPTER I CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH, B.C. 63-44
34CHAPTER II THE ROMAN EMPIRE AT THE DEATH OF IULIUS CÆSAR
35CHAPTER III THE INHERITANCE
36CHAPTER IV THE CONSULSHIP AND TRIUMVIRATE
37CHAPTER V PHILIPPI
38CHAPTER VI PERUSIA AND SICILY
39CHAPTER VII ACTIUM
40CHAPTER VIII THE NEW CONSTITUTION, B.C. 30-23
41CHAPTER IX THE FIRST PRINCIPATUS, B.C. 27-23
42CHAPTER X THE IMPERIAL AND MILITARY POLICY OF AUGUSTUS
43CHAPTER XI AUGUSTUS AND HIS WORSHIPPERS
44CHAPTER XII THE REFORMER AND LEGISLATOR
45CHAPTER XIII LATER LIFE AND FAMILY TROUBLES
46CHAPTER XIV THE LAST DAYS
47CHAPTER XV THE EMPEROR AUGUSTUS, HIS CHARACTER AND AIMS, HIS WORK AND FRIENDS
48AUGUSTUS’S ACCOUNT OF HIS REIGN (FROM THE INSCRIPTION IN THE TEMPLE OF ROME AND AUGUSTUS AT ANGORA)
49Footnote
50Tiberius
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