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'Medicus: A Novel of the Roman Empire'
Morning Edition (NPR)
; ... Novel of the Roman Empire' Host: SCOTT SIMON Time 12:00-13:00 PM Play Audio SCOTT SIMON, host: This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Scott Simon. Gaius Petrius Ruso was a man of education and elegance doing his duty in a savage land. He's an officer, an ...
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Growth of The Roman Empire, 44 BCE-117 CE Map
Maps.com (Historical Maps)
; 00-00-0000 Growth of The Roman Empire, 44 BCE-117 CE Map
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How immigration destroyed Rome. Oxford historian Peter Heather has reexamined the fall of Rome. His new book, The Fall of the Roman Empire, holds many lessons for today.(The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians)(Book Review)
The New American
; The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians, by Peter Heather (New York, New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), 572 pages, hardcover. By the time the Roman Empire in the West died in 476 A.D., the empire had lasted something on the order of 500 years. But the
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The Roman Empire & Germanic Migrations c.400 CE -- Europe,Asia,Middle East,Africa,Spain,Gaul,Britain,Sardinia,Corsica,Italy,Roman Empire,Greece,Balkans,Hungary,Egypt,Russia,Sicily,Crete,Cyprus,Syria,A
Maps.com (Historical Maps)
; 00-00-0000 The Roman Empire & Germanic Migrations c.400 CE -- Europe,Asia,Middle East,Africa,Spain,Gaul,Britain,Sardinia,Corsica,Italy,Roman Empire, Greece,Balkans,Hungary,Egypt,Russia,Sicily,Crete,Cyprus,Syria,Anatolia, Germany Map
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PBS' 'Roman Empire' renders a culture similar to our own.(Suburban Living)
Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
; Byline: Ted Cox Behold the glory that was Rome. PBS gives a viewer an opportunity to do just that as the intermittent series Empires turns its attention to The Roman Empire in the First Century at 9 p.m. Wednesday on WTTW Channel 11. Empire, of course, means emperors, and First Century basically
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Book review / The end of the Roman Empire (100 years late)
The Independent - London
; Theodor Mommsen is the only historian ever to have won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Radical politician as much as pedantic polymath, popularising journalist as much as retiring academic, his multi-volume History of Rome started to appear in the 1850s and was one of the inter- national publishing
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America is not Roman Empire
Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
; Tyler Thomas (Readers' Forum, June 19) suggested that socialism is what led to the downfall of the Roman Empire and that America should fear the same. He should be well to remember that America is not the Roman Empire. The times aren't even remotely comparable. Jason Berntson Salt Lake City
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The ideal of unity; Russell Chamberlin examines the origins and development of Europe's persistent vision of unity from the birth of the Holy Roman Empire to its fall.
History Today
; NEITHER HOLY, NOR ROMAN, NOR AN EMPIRE'. Voltaire's gibe about the Holy Roman Empire was literally true but, like all such glib gibes missed the essential point. For a thousand years people believed it existed or thought it ought to exist. For a thousand years, as they tore at each other in
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Crimes against Christians. (Roman Empire)
Saturday Evening Post
; ... apogee of her glory. And indeed, one can find many similarities between the criminal side of our civilization, reported in all our news media, and the manifestations of unruly human nature that concerned the Romans in their court journals, in their histories by ...
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Fall of the Roman Empire.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Geographical
; Fall of the Roman Empire by Peter Heather Macmillan, hb, pp400, 25 [pounds sterling] Another damned, thick, square book! Always scribble, scribble, scribble! Eh! Mr Gibbon? Having uttered this immortal critique of Edward Gibbon's Decline and loft of the Roman Empire, it seems likely that the Duke
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