The Book of the Ancient Romans is an introduction to the history & civilization of Rome from the traditional date of the founding of the city to its fall in 476. Mills again makes history a vital thing & historians, statesmen & poets of the ancient world living figures. She has an uncanny & unique ability to write history that's interesting & at the same time based on sound scholarship. Her direct, engaging approach is valued increasingly by the many parents in our day who are looking for reliable materials for home school study. With this book is concluded the series on the ancient world. The spirit of a nation is expressed and its history is recorded in three ways: in its political history, in its literature & in its art. The author's aim in her two books on the Ancient Greeks & the Ancient Romans, has been to use such parts of the political history of the Greeks & Romans, of their literature, & of their art as seem to have been the outward & visible signs of the spirit that inspired them.