Dimensions
221 x 269 x 3mm
Who was the first Christian Roman Emperor? Why didn't Spartacus escape from the Roman authorities? Which beekeeper wrote the most famous Roman poem ever? Why did Agrippina's famous son want to kill her?
In only 1,000 years, the ancient Romans created the biggest Empire that the world had ever seen. The civilisation included countries and their peoples all around the world. The Romans created some of the finest architects, soldiers, poets and statesmen ever to walk the earth.
You can discover a lot about the ancient Romans by reading about the lives of their biggest celebrities. As well as life stories, this book tells you about the times in which they lived, so you can see exactly how these men and women made history.
By telling the stories of nine individual characters, each title in the 'People Who Made History' series acts as a biography and a history to bring a bygone civilisation to life. This book tells the stories of Tarquinius, Julius Caesar, Spartacus, Julia Augusta, Virgil, Julia Agrippina, Hadrian, Marcus Aurelius, and Constantine.
