About the book: 2017 / "There is hardly a person so frivolous and indifferent to the life around him who would not be interested in the question of what means, what methods of politics “The Romans, in a period of less than 53 years, defeated almost all the countries of the inhabited world and subjugated them to their single power - a fact unparalleled in history,” noted the ancient Greek historian Polybius, and he was right. How did Roman civilization arise? How did Rome conquer Europe and the Mediterranean? The largest domestic expert on the history of Ancient Rome, Robert Yuryevich Vipper, in his fundamental work “Roman Civilization” gives a wide panorama of ancient Roman life in all its aspects since the birth of Roman civilization in the 5th century BC. e. and until the later period of the Augustan Principate. The author describes in detail the conditions for the emergence of the great Roman Empire, shows why it became the basis of what we today call Western civilization.