In the 250 years between 250 and 500 C.E., Rome found itself transformed from a mighty global empire into a limited collection of Germanic kingdoms.
This volume is ideal for use in the classroom, as well as for use in school and public libraries. Designed as an accessible introduction to this critical period, The Decline and Fall of Rome offers readers and researchers an appealing mix of descriptive chapters, biographical sketches, and annotated primary documents. An overview of the period is presented in the introduction, and is followed by chapters on late Roman culture, society, and economics in late antiquity; religious conflicts in Christian Rome; enemies of Rome; and why and when Rome fell. The narrative chapters conclude with a section placing Rome's fall in modern perspective.
An annotated bibliography and index are included.

Though he was Greek, Plutarch wrote his Roman Lives in the first century AD, a world dominated by the Roman Empire.

Here he considers some of the major figures who had left their stamp on the history of Rome, including generals, rulers, philosophers, and politicians.

This book details the many roles of the Roman auxiliary cavalryman, including reconnaissance, communication and policing duties, as well as in battle.

Drawn from a wide range of warlike peoples throughout the provinces, especially on the fringes of the empire, auxiliaries were generally not citizens of the Roman empire.

In Caesar's Messiah, a real life Da Vinci Code, Author Joseph Atwill makes the case that the Gospels were written under the direction of first-century Roman emperors.