In this fast-paced, highly informative volume, an authority on ancient Rome examines the lives and contributions of fourteen highly influential Romans from different walks of life, including the senators Cato and Cicero, the writers Virgil and Livy, the beneficent emperor Augustus and his wife Livia, the corrupt emperor Nero and his mother Agrippina, the scholars Pliny the Elder and Galen, the constructive emperors Hadrian and Antoninus, and two major champions of Christianity -- the emperor Constantine and bishop Ambrose.
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