Rome wasn’t built in a day. Rarely have truer words been spoken! Starting as a small village with nothing particularly special compared to anyone else around them, this small cluster of settlers bloomed into a world-dominating, unstoppable force that lasted over two thousand years.

In this audiobook, we will go on a journey together through the myriad of stages of the Roman Empire. From the first settlements, Shakespearean epics, the stories of mythological heroes, the merciless persecution of the Christians, to the eventual fall of the mighty empire, the tale will be laid out. The story of the Romans, both true and mythological, come strangely alive in H.A. Guerber’s fantastic telling. This book is a classic for a reason; used for over a hundred years to introduce us in the most dynamic way possible to this mighty group of people.

The Romans gave us many inventions, like aqueducts, tourniquets, concrete buildings, and of course, roads. Their genius was so far beyond almost every empire before and after them, that even those ancient roads have held together while our modern streets are in constant need of repair.

The Romans continue to serve as an inspiration, and also a warning.

The English poet Geoffrey Chaucer gave us another true saying, “All good things must come to an end.” This was fulfilled for Rome in the 400s A.D. through a series of violent, corrupt, and often shocking events. As this book contains these details, I won’t spoil the ending for you here at the beginning, but for those who had lived in Rome during its glory days, to suggest that the Empire could ever fall would have been madness; an impossibility. And yet, the impossible happens every day.