The RomansAn acclaimed scholar tells the full, breathtaking history of Rome, from its emergence in the Iron Age to the capture of Constantinople in the thirteenth century. 'At last, a history of the Roman state as it has always been crying out to be told, and never has been!' RODERICK BEATON The greatest empire in Western history told as never been told before. Rome is often remembered for its spectacular collapse. But for over two thousand years through civil