Ancient Rome / William E. Dunstan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dunstan, William E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rome--Civilization.

Rome.

Rome (Empire).

Civilization.

Rome--History--Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D.

History.

Rome--Politics and government--30 B.C.-476 A.D.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xxxiii, 597 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2011]

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780742568327

0742568326

9780742568334

0742568334

9780742568341

0742568342

OCLC:

609102335