Volume 1 of The History of Rome by the Nobel Prize winning classical historian Theodor Mommsen (1817-1903) covers the period from Rome's earliest origins to the unification of Italy. This monumental work became the enduring rival of Edward Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-1789).

Volume 1 of Mommsen's monumental and groundbreaking 1850s History of Rome, first published in English in 1862.