The Roman Empire
Fri 11 Oct 2024, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
The Roman Empire of Augustus and Marcus Aurelius might have collapsed more than fifteen hundred years ago but it has persisted in the imaginations of Europeans around the world as the very archetype of empire. Recently we’re told (who knows on what basis) that the average European or American male thinks about the Roman Empire many times a day. This lecture seeks to explain the rise and decline and fall of the Roman Empire, and why it has never been reconstituted as in China.
Event Information
Price: £10.00
Course Weeks: 1
Room: Kincaid Hall
Campaign: Autumn Term 2024
Your Tutor
Name: Michael Williams
Bio: Michael Williams has an undergraduate degree in History and an MSc in Politics. For 21 years he worked as a ministerial adviser in Whitehall before leaving for academic life in 1995. He spent another 26 years teaching a great variety of courses in different universities until retiring in 2021. He’s been teaching courses on politics and history at the Settlement for several years. He published a book on Britain since 1867 in 2000 and a family memoir in 2022. Michael is currently working on a sequel.
Department: Humanities
