Tom Holland is an award-winning historian, biographer and broadcaster. He is the author of Rubicon: The Triumph and the Tragedy of the Roman Republic, which won the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize; Persian Fire his history of the Graeco-Persian wars, won the Anglo-Hellenic League’s Runciman Award in 2006; Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom, a panoramic account of the two centuries on either side of the apocalyptic year 1000; In the Shadow of the Sword, which covers the collapse of Roman and Persian power in the Near East, and the emergence of Islam; and Dynasty, a portrait of Rome's first imperial dynasty.
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Republic, 265-30 B.C., 510-30 B.C., Anglo Saxon period, 449-1066, Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066, Persian Wars, 500-449 B.C., 19th century, 30 B.C.-476 A.D., 49 B.C., 510 B.C.-30 B.C., Antiquity, Civil War, 49 B.C.-45 B.C., Civil War, 49-45 B.C, Civil War, 49-45 B.C., Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D., Late Antiquity, Persian Wars, 500-499 B.C., Republic, 265 B.C.-30 B.C., Roman Republic 500-27 BC, To 640ID Numbers
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