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The Rise of the Roman Empire: Rome, Etruscans, Livy, and the Shadow of Empire
This AgeOfAntiquity documentary episode introduces the rise of Rome by contrasting its later ruins with its former imperial scale. The transcript covers Napoleon’s symbolic march into Rome, the Colosseum and Roman spectacles, the infrastructure of a million-person city, the Etruscan world that shaped early Rome, and Livy’s attempt to recover lessons from Rome’s founding past.
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