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

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Copyright © 2012 by Anthony Everitt

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Grateful acknowledgment is made to Penguin Group (UK) for permission to reprint approximately 1,202 words from The Rise of the Roman Empire by Polybius, translated by Ian Scott-Kilvert, selected with an introduction by F. W. Walbank (Penguin Classics, 1979), copyright © 1979 by Ian Scott-Kilvert; approximately 856 words from The Early History of Rome: Books I–V of The History of Rome from Its Foundation by Livy, translated by Aubrey de Sélincourt with an introduction by R. M. Ogilvie (Penguin Classics, 1960. Reprinted with a new introduction 1971), copyright © 1960 by the Estate of Aubrey de Sélincourt, introduction copyright © 1971 by R. M. Ogilvie; approximately 146 words from Rome and Italy: Books VI–X of The History of Rome from Its Foundation by Livy, translated and annotated by Betty Radice, introduction by R. M. Ogilvie (Penguin Classics, 1982), copyright © 1982 by Betty Radice, introduction copyright © 1982 by the Estate of R. M. Ogilvie; approximately 439 words from The War with Hannibal: Books XXI–XXX of The History of Rome from Its Foundation by Livy, translated by Aubrey de Sélincourt, edited with an introduction by Betty Radice (Penguin Classics, 1965), copyright © 1965 by the Estate of Aubrey de Sélincourt; approximately 137 words from Rome and the Mediterranean: Books XXXI–XLV of The History of Rome from Its Foundation by Livy, translated by Henry Bettenson, introduction by A. H. McDonald (Penguin Classics, 1976), copyright © 1976 by Henry Bettenson, introduction copyright © 1976 by A. H. McDonald. Reprinted by permission of Penguin Group (UK).

Everitt, Anthony.

The rise of Rome: the making of the world’s greatest empire/Anthony Everitt.

p. cm.

eISBN: 978-0-679-64516-0

1. Rome—History—Empire, 30 B.C.–284 A.D. 2. Rome— History—Empire, 284–476. I. Title.

DG276.E84 2012

937′.63—dc23 2011048318

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