Ancient Rome A Military and Political History

Name: Ancient Rome A Military and Political History
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ISBN: 9780521809184

ISBN-10: 0521809185

ISBN-13: 9780521809184

Edition: 2004

Authors: Christopher S. Mackay

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Ancient Rome is a concise, comprehensive political and military history of the Roman Republic and Empire, from the origins of the city in the Italian Iron Age, until the deposition of the last emperor in 476 AD. Christopher Mackay describes how military events undermined the political institutions of the Republic, how the Empire was administered and controlled, why Christianity was adopted as the state religion under Constantine, and how military and economic pressures of the third and fourth centuries eventually led to the downfall of the Western empire. Illustrated with relevant art works from Rome's long history, this volume serves as an up-to-date overview of one of the most…

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List price: $58.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/24/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 460
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.41" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 2.222

Christopher S. Mackay is Associate Professor in the Department of History and Classics at the University of Alberta.




Obscure Beginnings, to 264 B.C.



Foundations and kingdoms, to ca. 507 B.C.



Domestic history of the Early Republic, ca. 507 B.C. - ca. 287 B.C.



Conquest of Latium and Italy, ca. 507 B.C. - 264 B.C.



Conquest of the Mediterranean, 264 B.C. - 146 B.C.



Struggle with Carthage, 264 B.C. - 146 B.C.



Wars in the East, 215 B.C. - 146 B.C.



Conquest of Spain 218 B.C. - 134 B.C.



Effects of the conquests on Rome



Collapse of the Republic, 133 B.C. - 27 B.C.



Assault on the oligarchy, 133 B.C. - 81 B.C.



Restored oligarchy, 81 B.C. - 59 B.C.



Caeser and the end of republican government, 59 B.C. - 44 B.C.



Conflict of the warlords, 44 B.C. - 27 B.C.



Politics in the Late Republic;



The Principate, 27 B.C. - A.D.



Augustus and establishment of the Principate, 31 B.C. - A.D.



Julio-Claudian Dynasty, A.D. 14 - A.D.



Civil war and the Flavian Dynasty, A.D. 68 - A.D.



Pinnacle of the Principate, A.D. 96 - A.D.



Civil war and the Severan Dynasty, A.D. 193 - A.D.



Institutions of the Principate



The Late Empire, A.D. 235 - A.D.



Militatry and dynastic crisis, A.D. 235 - A.D.



Rise of Christianity



Diocletian and the restoration of imperial authority, A.D. 284 - A.D.



Civil war and the triumph of Constantine and Christianity, A.D. 305 - A.D.



Heyday of the Christian Empire, A.D. 337 - A.D.



Demise of the Empire in the West, A.D. 395 - A.D.


Epilogue: Survival and transformation of the Empire in the East after A.D.