The Oxford History Of The Classical World

Description

The subject of this book is tremendous. In the time it covers a time of well over a thousand years, from the sonnets of

Homer as far as possible of agnostic religion and the fall of the Roman Empire in the West. In topographical augmentation it

starts in Greece with little networks rising up out of a dull period of success and pulverization, and with

Bronze Age towns on the slopes of Rome; it closes with an Empire which bound together with the Mediterranean world and a

incredible arrangement in addition, from Northumberland to Algeria, from Portugal to Syria, from the Rhine to the Nile. The fall

of Rome was additionally expelled in time from Homer than we are from the Norman Conquest; with respect to political scale,

the Roman Empire involved the entire or part of the domain of what are currently thirty sovereign states, and it was

not until 1870 that Italy, for example, accomplished again the solidarity which Rome had forced before the introduction of

Christ.