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| Rome - Power & Glory | 
| Studio: Questar
Category: DVD
List Price: $29.99
Buy New: $10.77
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Avg. Customer Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 37311
Format: Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Running Time: 312 minutes
Number Of Items: 6
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 1568555911
UPC: 033937030826
EAN: 9781568555911
ASIN: B00000JYWU
Theatrical Release Date: January 1, 1998
Release Date: August 15, 2000
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: New/Sealed!
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Rome: Power & Glory is a six-volume comprehensive introduction to the rise, rule, and fall of the Roman Empire. The series covers the political, military, and social history of the empire from its miraculous engineering feats to the exorbitant taxation that contributed to its downfall. Learn about ancient sporting events and Roman opinions on sex, fashions, slavery, and taxes. The series covers many of Rome's most famous, and in many cases infamous, figures, including Julius Caesar, Augustus, Nero, and Caligula. One of the series' main strengths is its coverage of all levels of Roman society, depicting the diverse strata of Roman civilization in all respects: economic, religious, geographic, and such. While providing a good general overview, Rome does not have time to make a detailed study of any one topic. The other disadvantage is a reliance on old gladiator movie footage that detracts from the seriousness of the topic. All in all, this is an excellent visual introduction to the history of the Roman Empire. --Tara Chace
Description
For over a thousand years, Rome was the center of the known world. One of the most glorious empires in history, she brought to her subjects a common language , shared culture, and for some wealth beyond imagination. But nothing lasts forever. War, barbarian attacks, and moral decay eventually took their toll and the empire slowly began to crumble. This six part series presents the complete history of Rome, from its primitive beginnings, to the height of its glory to its eventual decline, as well as its legacies today. Filmed in 10 countries, Rome: Power and Glory combines location footage of ancient monuments, detailed reenactments, period art and writings, and insights from scholars and public figures to bring the ancient world to life. Extra Features: Timeline, Virtual Reconstructions, Twelve Caesars Biographies, Web Link
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 What a masterpiece! November 29, 2007
Before traveling to Italy I wanted to know as much as possible about the history of Italy and these videos are the best way of learning about the history of Roman empire. They are amusing and by no means a drudgery!
 Not National Geographic, but still Good September 4, 2007
This is not a world class set, but it's not bad, and I think it lays out basic Roman history just fine. I have seen many films on Rome and everyone of them has a diffirent opinion/view. I enjoyed this low-buget set very much; they all can't be high end like National Geographic.
Entertaining and Educational June 5, 2006
I would recommend this collection to anyone with any interest in history. Everyone in my family enjoyed it. The costumes and scenery are great and the stories are interesting. It's very educational for those of us who don't have a degree in history.
A lot of good points, but they could at least disguise the repetition February 20, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This documentary is rather comprehensive, and it is interesting. It has a lot of interesting commentary, not always relying on "historians" but also on experts in different fields being examined.
But, as other reviewers have said, it's very repetetive. When you are watching 5 hours worth, you kind of expect that they would have cut as much as they could have, but they didn't. It is, however, difficult to not repeat things when you are trying to make logical points, as this documentary does. The problem is, they don't even try to pretend that they aren't saying the same things. They will use the exact same words to describe it, they will show the same video clips, etc. And, sometimes they use the same video clip for several different events, making it feel like a less-interactive real-time-strategy computer game.
 no romulus and remus November 25, 2005
3 out of 17 found this review helpful
i came upon a magazine called history today it was an article about an archaeologist named simon leaphead who said the story of romulus and remus may have historical basis in a tale of two brothers named osto and mosto who lived in the year 6000 .B.C. this article was published two years before the documentry iam reviewing was released the filmakers could have interviewed mr.leaphead in a part of the documentry about romes origins but they didn`t they just talked about the empire like everyone else does they could have at least talked about THE ROMAN REPUBLIC`S HISTORY. am i right
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