This marvellous retelling of the most exciting stories from Roman history charts the rise and fall of one of the world's greatest empires.

Readers will experience the founding of Rome and the early battles with Carthage and Hannibal; meet some of the world's most intriguing historical figures, including Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra; and discover the conquests of Gaul and Britain, before learning about the decline and fall of the Empire under the Huns and the beginning of the Dark Ages.

This is a fascinating and engaging resource for teachers and home schoolers which is used in the Steiner-Waldorf curriculum for 11–12 year olds.

'The author has succeeded in creating vivid pictures in this particular book. This is another excellent historical compilation from Charles Kovacs.'
-- Rosemary Usselman, New View, Summer 2005

Charles Kovacs was born in Austria. He left his native country in 1938 at the time of the Anschluss and joined the British Army in East Africa. After the War, he settled in Britain, and in 1956 he took over a class at the Rudolf Steiner School in Edinburgh, where he remained a class teacher until his retirement in 1976. He died in 2001. His extensive lesson notes have been a useful and inspiring resource material for many teachers. He is the author of Parsifal and the Search for the Grail (2002), The Age of Revolution (2003), Ancient Greece (2004) and The Age of Discovery (2004).