Guy Bradley

Early Rome to 290 BC

The Beginnings of the City and the Rise of the Republic

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A new view of early Rome as a mobile society within a Mediterranean environment In the first few centuries of its existence, Rome developed from a minor settlement on the Tiber into the most powerful city-state in Italy. Guy Bradley examines the reasons for Rome's emergence and success within a highly competitive Italian environment, and how much it owed to its neighbours. He explains how many of Rome's key characteristics, such as its powerful ruling elite, its stable political institutions, its openness to outsiders, and its intensely militaristic society, were shaped by their origins in the monarchy and early Republic. Key Features: . Covers the rise of Rome from small scale community to supremacy in central Italy . Uses the latest archaeological evidence to demonstrate the sophisticated and cosmopolitan nature of early Rome . Analyses the origins of Rome's Republican form of government and of its aggressive drive to conquer. Guy Bradley is Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at Cardiff University

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 780g
• ISBN-13: 9780748621095
• ISBN-10: 0748621091
• Artikelnr.: 36844342

Autorenporträt

Guy Bradley is Professor of Ancient History at Cardiff University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1. Sources and Approaches
2. Western Italy from the Bronze Age to the Orientalising period
3. Myths and legends of the foundation of Rome
4. Kingship
5. Urbanism and city foundation
6. Economy and society in archaic Rome and central Italy
7. Rome in the early Republic
8. Roman foreign relations in sixth, fifth and fourth centuries BC
9. Rome and Italy 338 - 290 BC: conquest and accommodation
10. Rome around 300 BC
List of maps
List of illustrations