What followed was a thousand years of kings, wars, revolutions, and an empire that may have never really fallen. Rome produced some of the greatest history and literature ever written, and a civilization that still shapes how we think about power, freedom, and the fate of nations.
But how much of what we “know” about Rome is actually true?
Nearly every account of Rome reaches us through someone with a particular point of view. Some were historians writing centuries after the events they described. Some were politicians savaging their rivals. And many were scribes copying texts by hand for generations. Sorting fact from legend takes a different kind of reading.
That’s what University of Austin Professor Isabella Reinhardt teaches.
