Book description
Roma is the story of the ancient city of Rome, from its mythic
beginnings as a campsite along a trade route to its emergence as the
centre of the most extensive, powerful empire in the ancient world.
Beginning with the prehistory days when Roma was a way station among
seven hills for traders and merchants and the founding of the city
itself by Romulus and Remus, critically acclaimed historical novelist
Steven Saylor tells the epic saga of a city and its people, its rise
to prominence among the city-states of the area, and, ultimately,
dominance over the entire ancient Western world. From the tragedy of
Coriolanus, to the Punic Wars and the invasion by Hannibal, the
triumph and murder of Julius Caesar, and the rise and decline of the
Roman Republic and the beginnings of Imperial Rome, Saylor's
breathtaking novel brings to vivid life the most famous city of the
ancient world. Roma is Saylor's finest achievement, an epic in the
truest sense of the word.
