Rome: An Empire's Story is a one-volume history of the Roman empire by the ancient historian Greg Woolf, first published in 2012 and issued in a revised second edition in 2022. In about three hundred pages of main text and eighteen chapters, it follows roughly fifteen hundred years of Roman power, from the small city-state of early Italy to the end of Roman rule over the Mediterranean in the age of the Arab conquests.
Greg Woolf · AuthorRome: An Empire's Story
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Greg Woolf
About Greg Woolf
Greg Woolf is a British historian of the ancient Mediterranean and a Fellow of the British Academy. He taught for many years at the University of St Andrews as Professor of Ancient History, later directed the Institute of Classical Studies in the University of London, and then moved to the University of California, Los Angeles. His research has concentrated on how provincial peoples became Roman, on the cities and religions of the empire, and on comparing Rome with other ancient empires. His other books include Becoming Roman: The Origins of Provincial Civilization in Gaul (1998) and The Life and Death of Ancient Cities (2020).