Roman story in faces. In 3 books. Book 3. Empire

Persons ... Personality ... Larvae ... This is the story of Rome in the peculiar presentation of Leo Osterman: the author analyzes the acts of bright, unusual personalities - politicians, poets, commanders - reconstructing their psychological portraits against the background of the historical process. But the course of history is determined not only by the great people, but by entire groups, layers of society: plebs and "zo-lane youth", residents of the Italian provinces and veterans of the Roman army, who also became heroes of the book. The reader learns how the Romans waged wars and how they plowed the land, what they ate and how they dressed, about the architecture and ways of breaking military camps, about markets and theaters. The reader wanders through the streets and markets, sits in zucchini and warms in the terms, reads inscriptions on the walls and listens how it races and freezes, casts idols and rejoices the eternal city. The reader seely sees noble faces and vile larvae, monitors the formation of a truly Roman great character, which has become an ideal for centuries for the best sons of Russia and Europe ...
In the third book, the historical period is covered from the reign of August to the end of the reign of Marcus Aurelius and the gradual extinction of the republic