![]() ![]() To add to our temporal uncertainties there is also the question of what the Roman empire – and Rome itself – really was, even during the time when it was unquestionably a global superpower. Did Rome cease to have an empire when Constantine became a Christian, in 337? Did it limp on until the Visigoths pitched up in 410? ![]() And the fall of Rome is almost as difficult to place. He narrowed things down using a chronological treatise to the third year of the sixth cycle of the Olympic Games: 753BC. Even the traditional date of the founding of the city was decided upon many centuries later, by Cicero’s great friend, Atticus. R ome’s earliest history is lost within the mists and myths of time. ![]()
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