Rome and the Mediterranean 290 to 146 BC

Author: Nathan Rosenstein
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748629998
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312

Book Description
A compelling account of how Rome became supreme power in Europe and the Mediterranean world. The book highlights the significance of Rome's success in the wars against Pyrrhys, Carhage, the Hellenistic kingdoms and in Spain that led to empire, and it shows how the Republic's success in conquering an empire changed the conquerors.It is unusual in focusing on a discrete, vital period in Roman history rather than attempting to cover all of it or even just the Republic.

Rome and the Mediterranean 290 to 146 BC

Author: Nathan Rosenstein
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748650814
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312

Book Description
Nathan Rosenstein charts Rome's incredible journey and command of the Mediterranean over the course of the third and second centuries BC.

End of the Roman Republic 146 to 44 BC

Author: Catherine Steel
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748629025
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320

Book Description
In 146 BC the armies of Rome destroyed Carthage and emerged as the decisive victors of the Third Punic War. The Carthaginian population was sold and its territory became the Roman province of Africa. In the same year and on the other side of the Mediterranean Roman troops sacked Corinth, the final blow in the defeat of the Achaean conspiracy: thereafter Greece was effectively administered by Rome. Rome was now supreme in Italy, the Balkans, Greece, Macedonia, Sicily, and North Africa, and its power and influence were advancing in all directions. However, not all was well. The unchecked seizure of huge tracts of land in Italy and its farming by vast numbers of newly imported slaves allowed an elite of usually absentee landlords to amass enormous and conspicuous fortunes. Insecurity and resentment fed the gulf between rich and poor in Rome and erupted in a series of violent upheavals in the politics and institutions of the Republic. These were exacerbated by slave revolts and invasions from the east.

Early Rome to 290 BC

Author: Guy Bradley
Publisher: Edinburgh History of Ancient Rome
ISBN: 9780748621095
Category : Rome
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
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.

Augustan Rome 44 BC to AD 14

Author: J. S. Richardson
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748629041
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
Centring on the reign of the emperor Augustus, volume four is pivotal to the series, tracing of the changing shape of the entity that was ancient Rome through its political, cultural and economic history. Within this period the Roman world was reconfigured. On a political and constitutional level the patterns of the republic, which sustained an oligarchic regime and a popularist structure, were transformed into a monarchical dictatorship in which the earlier elements continued to function. On an imperial level, the growth in Roman power reached what was virtually its apogee. In literature and the visual arts, new forms of expression, based on those of the previous generations but closely linked to the new regime, showed great achievements. In society and the economy, the effectiveness and dominance of Rome as the centre of world power became increasingly obvious.

Rome

Author: Greg Woolf
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199325189
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 383

Book Description
A major new history of the spectacular rise and fall of the ancient world's greatest empire

Imperial Rome AD 284 to 363

Author: Jill Harries
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748653953
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384

Book Description
This book is about the reinvention of the Roman Empire during the eighty years between the accession of Diocletian and the death of Julian.

Taken at the Flood

Author: Robin Waterfield
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199916896
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321

Book Description
Addressing a marginalized era of Greek and Roman history, Taken at the Flood offers a compelling narrative of Rome's conquest of Greece.

The Punic Wars 264–146 BC

Author: Nigel Bagnall
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472809971
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 121

Book Description
The three Punic Wars lasted over 100 years, between 264 BC and 146 BC. They represented a struggle for supremacy in the Mediterranean between the bludgeoning land power of Rome, bent on imperial conquest, and the great maritime power of Carthage with its colonies and trading posts spread around the Mediterranean. This book reveals how the dramas and tragedies of the Punic Wars exemplify many political and military lessons which are as relevant today as when Hannibal and Scipio Africanus fought to determine the course of history in the Mediterranean.

Mediterranean Anarchy, Interstate War, and the Rise of Rome

Author: Arthur M. Eckstein
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520259920
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 394

Book Description
"A major contribution to the study of Roman imperialism and ancient international relations."—John Rich, University of Nottingham