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History of the Roman Empire: from the Accession of Augustus to the Destruction of the Western Roman Empire (chinese Global History)

(ireland) Thomas Ketterley

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This book is as famous as Edward Gibbon's "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" and is recognized as an academic masterpiece of the classical period. It tells a multi-layered, wide-angle and methodical story of the 505-year history from Augustus in 29 BC when Augustus became the "head of state" of the Roman Empire to the demise of the Western Roman Empire due to barbarian invasion in 476 AD. It summarizes the experience and lessons of the rise and fall of the Roman Empire's dynasties with profound thoughts.