Rom: Aufstieg einer antiken Weltmacht

From the legendary founding of Rome to the fatal assassination of Caesar, historians and SPIEGEL journalists trace the turbulent fate of a state that was by no means uniform. But many other aspects of the Roman Republic are also discussed: the struggle with the Gauls, table manners and dining preferences, character heads like the old Cato, the emergence of the Latin language, national poetry based on the Greek model, or the astonishing durability of Roman concrete.