The Rise of Rome: The Making of the World's Greatest Empire

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

My faithful twin props in England have been my agent, Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson, and the London Library. My exemplary editor on the far side of the Atlantic, Will Murphy, ably supported by assistant editor Katie Donelan, has tolerated broken deadlines and been a fountain of wise advice. As with my previous books, Professor Robert Cape of Austin College, Texas, has kindly read a draft and offered valuable comments and suggestions.

I am indebted to the dentist Shahin Nozohoor for advice on the state of Pyrrhus’s teeth.

I am grateful to Penguin Books for permission to quote extensively from its translations of Livy and Polybius.