In two new books, the historians Adrian Goldsworthy and Tom Holland portray an empire that knew how to hold back from a fight and make room for upstarts. Someone’s husband trying on a Roman centurion ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Adrian Goldsworthy is an Author with one video in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2006 Speech. Adrian Goldsworthy talked about his biography, Caesar: Life ...

Kings and emperors -- Chronology -- List of maps -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Felix: 90s BC -- King of kings: 247-c.70 BC -- Wars and rumours of wars: 70-54 BC -- The battle: 53-50 BC -- Invasions: ...

[amazon 030016534X full] Adrian Goldsworthy, Antony and Cleopatra (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2010), 480 pp., $35.00. CLEOPATRA VII—“the Female Horus,” “the Great One,” “the Mistress of ...

On How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower, by Adrian Goldsworthy. Empires have been a hot scholarly commodity of late. The collapse of the Soviet Union left the United States in a position of global ...

In this innovative study, historian and novelist Goldsworthy (Philip and Alexander) examines how the ancient world was shaped by Cold War-like tensions between two superpowers: the Roman Empire and ...