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Review Of Will Lewison's The Fall Of An Empire

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The Fall of an Empire-Will Lewison

In the year 46 BC, The entire world only knew the first republic; the world had known kings, emperors, and even hunter-gatherer societies. All of which societies depended on the life on one man. It is ironic, that the end of a republic, the only republic, depended on the life of one man.
Gaius Julius Caesar was born in 100 BC. His meteoric rise to dictatorship was littered with incremental cuts at the only republic the world had ever known. From crossing the Rubicon with an army to waging a civil war with Pompey. The seeds of Rome’s destruction from within were sown; 200 years later, the Pax Romana instituted by Augustus, the grand-nephew of Julius Caesar, is nearing its end. There had been a period of
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