The Roman History, from the Foundation of the City of Rome, to the Destruction of the Western Empire

The Roman History, from the Foundation of the City of Rome, to the Destruction of the Western Empire is Oliver Goldsmith's narrative account of Rome's rise, institutions, conflicts, emperors, and decline. Written for broad readership, it turns a large historical span into an orderly story of civic virtue, ambition, war, corruption, conquest, and imperial change.

The work shows how eighteenth-century writers made ancient history readable and morally instructive. Goldsmith's Rome is not only a sequence of events, but a theatre for character, power, and political lesson. Readers interested in Roman history, classical education, historical prose, republic and empire, civic decline, and the way earlier centuries taught antiquity will find a clear and historically revealing account.