Imperium: The Fall and Rise of the Roman Empire in the Third Century

Imperium is a fast-paced and action-packed history of the Roman empire in the tumultuous third century. Too many readers fixate on the golden age of Rome and its apogee under Marcus Aurelius in the second century and then rush to the seismic revolution introduced by Constantine in the fourth century. But in between, from the political chaos following the assassination Commodus to the ascendency of Constantine, is no mere excursus, but one of the most the most bloody, brutal, and vital perio...