The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire by Kyle Harper

The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire

The Princeton History of the Ancient World

Kyle Harper

440 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction health history nature science informative slow-paced
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How devastating viruses, pandemics, and other natural catastrophes swept through the far-flung Roman Empire and helped to bring down one of the mightiest civilizations of the ancient worldHere is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequ...

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