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From the painted tombs of the Etruscans to the world of Augustus in 1 CE: how a village on the Tiber came to rule the Mediterranean, and what happened to those it conquered, told by Sophia with Philo, Marcos and Demetria, with grammar at every level and a gamebook for each part.
Volume IV of the History of the Ancient World. The same rules as every volume: what scholars agree on, what they debate and what nobody knows, and the uncomfortable parts too, such as conquest and slavery. It ends in the year 1 CE, the world in which Philo lives.
The peoples who ruled the west before Rome.
Painted tombs, free women, liver-readers, and a linen book around a mummy.
The New City of Tyre: its war harbour, Hanno, Mago, the tophet and the myth of the salt.
From huts on a hill to the master of Italy and the sea.
Romulus and the huts on the Palatine, kings, consuls, debt and the Twelve Tables.
Rome’s first fleet, Hannibal over the Alps, Cannae, and the end of Carthage.
The freedom of the Greeks, Corinth, Delos, Viriathus and the tax collectors.
Civil wars, slaves in revolt, and the end of liberty.
The Gracchi, Sulla’s march on Rome, Spartacus, and Pompey in Jerusalem.
The Rubicon, the fire in Alexandria’s harbour, the new calendar, and the last pharaoh.
The first emperor, the Roman peace, a year nobody called 1 CE, and Han China.