The Rise of Rome: The Making of the World's Greatest Empire PB_Gift_Guide When the Light of the

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The Rise of Rome: The Making of the World's Greatest Empire PB_Gift_Guide When the Light of theNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE KANSAS CITY STAR From Anthony Everitt, the bestselling author of acclaimed biographies of Cicero, Augustus, and Hadrian, comes a riveting, magisterial account of Rome and its remarkable ascent from an obscure agrarian backwater to the greatest empire the world has ever known. Emerging as a market town from a cluster of hill villages in the eighth and seventh centuries B. C., Rome grew to become the