This magisterial survey, spanning over 1,300 years, is widely acclaimed as the best single-volume history of Rome. The second edition incorporates a number of improvements including new subject sections and maps, expanded coverage of key chapters, and updated resource and bibliographic material.

Incorporates a number of improvements, many of which have been suggested by readers.
Provides more extensive treatment of key areas.
Includes completely new sections to cover subjects omitted from the first edition.
Continues to include extensive illustrative material - plates, tables, chronologies, and maps (including two new ones).
A more comprehensive index will ensure the book is now easier to use.

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Marcel Le Glay was, until his death in 1993, Professor Emeritus of the University of Paris IV, Sorbonne.

Jean-Louis Voisin is a Lecturer at the University of Bourgogne.

Yann Le Bohec is a Professor at the University of Lyon III.

David Cherry is Associate Professor of History at Montana State University, Bozeman. He is the author of Frontier and Society in Roman North Africa (1998).

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