The bestseller by the famous German historian Theodor Mommsen (1817-1903) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1902 and then translated into almost all European languages. Mommsen's "History of Rome" is a detailed account of all aspects of the life of the Roman state: the construction of the Eternal City and the conquest of neighboring tribes, the formation of statehood and Roman law, the decline of the republic, wars and religion, art and science, democracy and the struggle for power, patricians and plebeians, gladiators and legionnaires, slaves, hetaera and much more. Vivid images of Cicero and Caesar, Hannibal and Mithridates, Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus stand behind the description of the events of Roman history.