(Set) Traveling the Roman Empire & The Roman Empire: From Augustus to The Fall of Rome

(Set) Traveling the Roman Empire & The Roman Empire: From Augustus to The Fall of Rome

(Set) Traveling the Roman Empire & The Roman Empire: From Augustus to The Fall of Rome

Plunge into the past with this fascinating two-course set on the Roman Empire. In Traveling the Roman Empire, walk along the length and breadth of the Roman Empire, with world-renowned archaeologist Darius Arya. And in The Roman Empire: From Augustus to the Fall of Rome, trace the empire's foundation by Augustus to its Golden Age in the 2nd century CE through a series of ever-worsening crises until its ultimate disintegration.

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