Roma

"Roma" is the story of the ancient city of Rome, from its mythic beginningsas a campsite along a trade route to its emergence as the centre of themost extensive, powerful empire in the ancient world.Beginning with theprehistory days when Roma was a way station among seven hills for tradersand merchants and the founding of the city itself by Romulus and Remus,critically acclaimed historical novelist Steven Saylor tells the epic sagaof a city and its people, its rise to prominence among the city-states ofthe area, and, ultimately, dominance over the entire ancient Westernworld.From the tragedy of Coriolanus, to the Punic Wars and the invasion byHannibal, the triumph and murder of Julius Caesar, and the rise and declineof the Roman Republic and the beginnings of Imperial Rome, Saylor'sbreathtaking novel brings to vivid life the most famous city of the ancientworld."Roma" is Saylor's finest achievement, an epic in the truest sense ofthe word.