Christopher S. Mackay

The Breakdown of the Roman Republic

From Oligarchy to Empire

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Produktbeschreibung

In this book, Christopher S. Mackay recounts the last century of the Roman Republic in a readable narrative treatment.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 502
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 720g
• ISBN-13: 9781107657021
• ISBN-10: 1107657024
• Artikelnr.: 38537108

Autorenporträt

Christopher S. Mackay is a professor in the Department of History and Classics at the University of Alberta.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Historical background
2. Tribunate of Ti. Gracchus
3. Tribunates of C. Gracchus
4. Numidia, senatorial failures, and the rise of C. Marius
5. Ascendancy of C. Marius
6. The Italian allies, M. Livius Drusus, and the social war
7. Sulla, Marius, and civil war
8. Roman territorial expansion before the First Mithridatic War
9. First Mithridatic War
10. Sulla's victory in civil war
11. Sulla's settlement
12. The 70s BC: attacks on the Sullan regime and the rise of Pompey
13. Third Mithridatic War, war with the pirates, and the ascendancy of Pompey
14. The 60s BC: Rome in the absence of Pompey
15. Consulship of Cicero
16. Consulship of C. Caesar
17. Caesar in Gaul
18. Last decade of the free Republic
19. Civil war and Caesar's victory
20. Caesar's domination and assassination
21. Turmoil after the Ides of March
22. Struggle of the warlords
23. Final showdown
24. The Augustan settlement and the 'restored' republic.