A history of Rome
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A history of Rome
Blackwell, 1996
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Histoire romaine
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"First published as Histoire Romaine by Presses Universitaires de France 1991"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
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.
Table of Contents
- 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?
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