Faces... Personalities... Faces... This is the history of Rome in a unique presentation by Lev Osterman: the author analyzes the actions of bright, unusual personalities - politicians, poets, generals - reconstructing their psychological portraits against the background of the historical process. But the course of history is determined not only by great people, but by entire groups, layers of society: the plebs and the “golden youth”, residents of the Italian provinces and veterans of the Roman army, who also became the heroes of the book. The reader learns how the Romans fought wars and how they plowed the land, what they ate and how they dressed, about the architecture and methods of setting up military camps, about markets and theaters. The reader wanders through the streets and markets, sits in taverns and warms himself in thermal baths, reads the inscriptions on the walls and listens to how the eternal city rages and freezes, overthrows idols and rejoices. The reader sees with his own eyes the noble faces and vile disguises, follows the formation of a truly Roman great character, which has become an ideal over the centuries for the best sons of Russia and Europe...

ContentsUse the arrow to expand or collapse this sectionRepublic of RomulusCamillusPublic structure and armyFabius and HannibalScipio AfricanusFlamininus , Cato and Paul Scipio Emilian Brothers Gracchi Marius Sulla Civil War Pompey and Lucullus Cicero Caesar The die is cast Between Caesar and Pompey Caesar and Cleopatra. CatoAnd you, Brutus?AntonyOctavianEmpireAugustVirgilTiberiusOvidiusCaligula and ClaudiusNeroSeneca. “Moral letters to Lucilius” Time of Troubles. Vespasian Josephus Flavius. “The Jewish War” Titus and Domitian Trajan Letters of Pliny the Younger Adrian Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius