This volume provides a detailed examination of nearly 1,400 years of Roman history, from the foundation of the city in the eighth century BC until the evacuation of Roman troops from Alexandria in AD 642 in the face of the Arab conquests.
This volume provides a detailed examination of nearly 1,400 years of Roman history, from the foundation of the city in the eighth century BC until the evacuation of Roman troops from Alexandria in AD 642 in the face of the Arab conquests.
Greg Fisher is a graduate of the University of Oxford, UK, and the author and editor of numerous works on the ancient world, including Between Empires (2011), Arabs and Empires Before Islam (2015), Hannibal and Scipio (2015), and Rome, Persia, and Arabia (Routledge 2020).
Inhaltsangabe
List of figures List of maps Acknowledgments Copyright notices Note to the reader Chapter OneThe origins of Rome Chapter TwoThe early Republic, 509-280 BC Chapter Three'True athletes of warfare': Rome, Carthage, and Pyrrhus, 280-225 BC Chapter Four'The empire of the world': Rome, Greece, Macedonia, and Hannibal, 264-200 BC Chapter Five'Against our own Roman gods': Rome and the Greek east, 200-146 BC Chapter SixThe collapse of public order, 140-63 BC Chapter SevenCoup, 63-30 BC Chapter Eight Monarchy and empire: Augustus, 30 BC-AD 14 Chapter NineFrom stability to chaos, AD 14-79 Chapter TenConsolidating the principate, AD 72-138 Chapter ElevenDecay, 138-235 Chapter TwelveThe empire transformed, 235-337 Chapter ThirteenDivision and collapse, 337-493 Chapter Fourteen The end of antiquity, 491-642 Glossary Further reading Index
List of figures List of maps Acknowledgments Copyright notices Note to the reader Chapter OneThe origins of Rome Chapter TwoThe early Republic, 509-280 BC Chapter Three'True athletes of warfare': Rome, Carthage, and Pyrrhus, 280-225 BC Chapter Four'The empire of the world': Rome, Greece, Macedonia, and Hannibal, 264-200 BC Chapter Five'Against our own Roman gods': Rome and the Greek east, 200-146 BC Chapter SixThe collapse of public order, 140-63 BC Chapter SevenCoup, 63-30 BC Chapter Eight Monarchy and empire: Augustus, 30 BC-AD 14 Chapter NineFrom stability to chaos, AD 14-79 Chapter TenConsolidating the principate, AD 72-138 Chapter ElevenDecay, 138-235 Chapter TwelveThe empire transformed, 235-337 Chapter ThirteenDivision and collapse, 337-493 Chapter Fourteen The end of antiquity, 491-642 Glossary Further reading Index
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