A History of Rome
Published on 24. October 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
484 pages
978-0-631-19458-3 (ISBN)
Description
This volume is an up-to-date survey of the history of Rome. Spanning over 1300 years, the narrative covers the earliest recorded settlement in the eighth century BC through the establishment of the Roman Republic and transition to empire, to Rome's decline in the late-fourth and fifth centuries AD. Throughout the book, political overview is balanced with an analysis of social and economic change, as well as religious and cultural life. The authors present these developments within a critical framework, introducing the reader to the key historical debates and issues of the period. They place particular emphasis on the importance of interpreting the varied source material, such as numismatic, archaeological and, especially, literary evidence.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
75 halftones, 40 line drawings, maps, tables, glossary, chronology, bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 171 mm
Weight
1340 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-631-19458-3 (9780631194583)
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Marcel Le Glay | Jean-Louis Voisin | Yann Le Bohec
A History of Rome
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10/2000
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Blackwell Publishers
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Content
Introduction - Rome and the Mediterranean. Part 1 From the origins to the empire: Italy before Rome; the formation of Rome - from Romulus to the Tarquins; the young Republic - the fifth and fourth centuries BC; the growth of the Republic - war and conquest in the third century BC; consequences of conquest - the second century BC; crisis of the Republic - the first century BC. Part 2 Rome, masters of the world: the Roman world in 31-28 BC; Augustus - the birth of the imperial regime - 29 BC-14 AD; the Julio-Claudians - the system under stress, 14-68 AD; the Flavians - consolidating the imperial order, 68-96 AD; the Antonine Empire, 96-192 AD; the reign of the Africans and Syrians, 193-235 AD. Part 3 Another Roman world (third-fifth centuries): a certain equilibrium - the year 235 AD; a disintegrating order, 235-284 AD; a different order, 284-361 AD; different institutions - reorganization; a different socio-economic world - recovery and state control; a different civilization - between paganism and Christianity; the end of the Roman world?