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Ancient Rome /

Ancient Rome masterfully synthesizes the vast period from the second millennium BCE to the sixth century CE, carrying readers through the succession of fateful steps and agonizing crises that marked Roman evolution from an early village settlement to the capital of an extraordinary realm extending f...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dunstan, William E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Early Italy
  • Origins of Rome
  • The young republic
  • Roman conquest of Italy
  • Duel with Carthage
  • Roman conquest of the Mediterranean world
  • Impact of overseas conquests on the senatorial oligarchy
  • Impact of overseas conquests of the economic and social organization of Italy
  • Greek cultural influences on Rome
  • Rival conceptions of state and society plague Roman politics : from the Gracchi to the Social War
  • Sulla
  • Pompey and Caesar
  • Antony and Octavian wrestle for empire : final dissolution of the old republican order
  • Economic, social, and cultural climate of the late republic
  • Augustus and the founding of the Roman Empire
  • Augustan social and religious policy
  • Augustan art and literature and the Augustan legacy
  • From Tiberius to Nero : the Julio-Claudian dynasty
  • From Vespasian to Domitian : the Flavian dynasty
  • From Nerva to Marcus Aurelius : the five good emperors
  • Government, economy, and society in the first and second centuries
  • Architecture and sculpture in the first and second centuries
  • Literature in the first and second centuries
  • Commodus and the Severan dynasty
  • Third-century imperial crisis and first phase of recovery
  • Reorganization of Diocletian and Constantine
  • Last years of the united empire
  • Society and culture in the later empire
  • Rise of Christianity
  • Christian triumph and controversy
  • Dismemberment of the Roman Empire in the West
  • Epilogue : the thousand-year survival of the Roman Empire in the East.