The Romans
Subtitle: An Introduction
Publisher: Routledge
Published: October 18, 1995
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780415120395
First sentence: Whoever coined the epigram 'Rome was not built in a day' - and it was probably the sixteenth-century English dramatist John Heywood - established a permanent reminder that the Roman civilization was twelve hundred years developing, flourishing, and ultimately disintegrating.