The Romans : From Village to Empire. A History of Ancient Rome from Earliest Times to Constantine

by: Boatwright, M.T. Gargola, D.J. Talbert, R.A.

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From Village to Empire introduces ancient Rome to readers eager for a concise and engaging understanding of its political, social, and cultural history. It traces Rome's remarkable evolution from monarchy, to republic, to one-man rule by an emperor whose power stretched from Scotland to Iraq and far up the Nile valley.

Author Information
Mary T. Boatwright, Professor of Ancient History in the Department of Classical Studies, Duke University, Daniel Gargola, Associate Professor of History, University of Kentucky, and Richard J. A. Talbert, Kenan Professor of History and Classics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Contents:
Early Italy
Rome's first centuries
Rome and Italy in the fourth century
The beginnings of a Mediterranean empire
Italy and empire
Italy threatened, enfranchised, divided
The domination of Sulla and its legacy
End of the republic: Caesar's dictatorship
Augustus and the transformation of the Roman World
The early principate (A.D. 14-69): the Julio-Claudians, the Civil War of 68-69, and life in the early empire
Institutionalization of the principate: military expansion and its limits, the empire and the provinces (69-138)
Italy and the provinces: civil and military affairs (138-235)
The third century, the dominate, and Constantine

The Romans : From Village to Empire. A History of Ancient Rome from Earliest Times to Constantine

by: Boatwright, M.T. Gargola, D.J. Talbert, R.A.

• ISBN-13: 9780195118766 / 978-0-19-511876-6
• ISBN-03: 0195118766 / 0-19-511876-6
• Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004

Price: 46,00 EURO

1 copy in stock