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Ancient Rome : a new history, with 200 illustrations, 149 in color / David Potter
- Author
- Potter, D. S. (David Stone), 1957-
- Published
- New York : Thames & Hudson Australia, 2014.
- Edition
- Second edition.
- Physical Description
- 368 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 26 cm
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: Early Rome -- The Early Republic -- The Late Republic and Early Empire -- The Third and Fourth Centuries AD -- The End of Empire -- Sources in Other Languages -- I.The Formation of the Roman Identity (800--350 BC) -- The First Roman Communities -- The Roman Story of Early Roman History -- Earliest Rome -- Early Political Structures -- Domestic and Intellectual World of Early Rome -- Definitions -- Life Expectancy, Marriage, and Values -- Religion: Family and State -- Religion and Foreign Relations -- Rome in the Sixth Century BC -- The Servian Constitution -- Kings and Magistrates -- The Emergence of the Roman Republic -- Patricians and Plebeians -- The Twelve Tables -- The Licinian-Sextian Laws -- Summary -- II.War and Empire (350--133 BC) -- Rome and the Latins -- The Cassian Treaty -- The Relationship with the Latins after 337 BC -- The Doctrine of Decisive Victory -- The Wars of the Third Century BC -- Why Did Rome Fight? -- The Militarism of the Third Century BC -- Technical Prowess -- The Empire: Patrons and Clients -- Provinces -- Patronage -- Taxes -- The Wars of the Second Century BC -- The Defeat of the Macedonian Kingdoms -- The Empire in 133 BC -- The Consequences of Empire -- Culture -- Italy and the Empire -- Slavery -- Summary -- III.The Failure of the Roman Republic (133--59 BC) -- The Gracchi (133--121 BC) -- Tiberius Gracchus -- Gaius Gracchus -- Popular Sovereignty and Senatorial Control (121--100 BC) -- The Suppression of Popular Sovereignty -- The Restoration of Popular Sovereignty -- The Age of Sulla (100--78 BC) -- The War with the Italians -- Sulla: The Reactionary Revolutionary -- Life after Sulla (78--59 BC) -- The Professionalization of the Roman Army -- Pompey -- Cicero and Caesar -- Summary -- IV.The Transition from Republic to Principate (59 BC--AD 70) -- Explaining the Change -- The Domination of Caesar (59--44 BC) -- Culture in the Age of Caesar -- Caesar and Pompey -- Octavianus and Antony (44--31 BC) -- Caesar's Heir (44--43 BC) -- The Era of the Triumvirs (43--31 BC) -- The Fall of the Republic -- The House of Augustus (31 BC--AD 14) -- The Creation of a New Order -- Augustus and Roman Culture -- The Succession (12 BC--AD 14) -- The Empire at the Death of Augustus -- Eccentric Stability: The Successors to Augustus (AD 14--69) -- Tiberius (AD 14--37) -- Caligula and Claudius (AD 37--54) -- Nero (AD 54--68) -- The Year of the Four Emperors (AD 69) -- Summary -- V.The Age of Stability (AD 70--238) -- New Dynasties (AD 70--180) -- The Flavians (AD 70--96) -- Nerva, Trajan, and Hadrian (AD 96--138) -- The Antonines (AD 138--80) -- Imperial Culture -- The Contemporaries of Tacitus -- Spectacle and Culture -- Religion and Culture -- Running the Roman Empire -- Emperors and Their Officials -- Emperors and Their Subjects -- The Roman Army -- An Age of Rust and Iron (AD 180--238) -- Commodus (AD 180--92) -- Septimius Severus (AD 193--211) -- The Successors of Severus (AD 211--38) -- Summary -- VI.The Transformation of the Roman World (AD 238--410) -- Third-century Crises (AD 238--70) -- Bureaucrats and Emperors -- New Enemies? -- Barbarian Ascendancy (AD 238--70) -- The Restoration of the Empire (AD 270--305) -- Aurelian and His Successors (AD 270--84) -- Diocletian (AD 284--305) -- Constantine and His Empire (AD 306-37) -- The Rise to Power (AD 306--12) -- The Conversion of Constantine (AD 312) -- Licinius (AD 313--24) -- Constantine and the Empire (AD 324--37) -- The Struggle for Control (AD 337--410) -- Constantius II and Julian (AD 337--63) -- Bureaucratic Backlash and Barbarian Invasion (AD 363--95) -- Stilicho and Alaric (AD 395--410) -- Summary -- VII.The Endings of the Roman Empire (AD 410--642) -- The Course of Events (AD 410--642) -- Barbarians and Emperors from Alaric to Geiseric (AD 410--77) -- Eastern Emperors and Western Kings from Theodosius II to Justinian (AD 408--527) -- The Vision of Justinian (AD 527--65) -- The World of Heraclius and Umar (AD 565--642) -- Economic and Social Changes -- Explaining Decline -- Summary.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9780500291245 (paperback)
0500291241 (paperback) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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