Arthur M. Eckstein

Rome Enters the Greek East

From Anarchy to Hierarchy in the Hellenistic Mediterranean, 230-170 BC

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Produktbeschreibung

Rome Enters the Greek East offers a balanced portrait of Roman militarism and imperialism that is essential reading for scholars interested in the interaction of Rome and the Hellenistic world. Applying modern political theory to ancient Mediterranean history, it takes a Realist approach to its analysis of the development of Roman involvement in the Greek Mediterranean and employs unipolarity theory to examine the earliest era of Roman geopolitical dominance over the Greek states.

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This volume examines the period from Rome s earliest involvement in the eastern Mediterranean to the establishment of Roman geopolitical dominance over all the Greek states from the Adriatic Sea to Syria by the 180s BC.

Applies modern political theory to ancient Mediterranean history, taking a Realist approach to its analysis of Roman involvement in the Greek Mediterranean
Focuses on the harsh nature of interactions among states under conditions of anarchy while examining the conduct of both Rome and Greek states during the period, and focuses on what the concepts of modern political science can tell us about ancient international relations
Includes detailed discussion of the crisis that convulsed the Greek world in the last decade of the third century BC
Provides a balanced portrait of Roman militarism and imperialism in the Hellenistic world

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 574g
• ISBN-13: 9781118255360
• ISBN-10: 1118255364
• Artikelnr.: 34998892

Autorenporträt

Arthur M. Eckstein is a specialist in the history of Roman imperialism. He has published three books, Senate and General: Individual Decision-Making and Roman Foreign Relations, 264-194 BC (1987), Moral Vision in the Histories of Polybius (1995), Mediterranean Anarchy, Interstate War and the Rise of Rome (2006), and 50 major scholarly articles. He is also co-editing an edition of Polybius' Histories.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments vi
List of Maps vii
Part I Rome in Contact with the Greek East, 230-205 BC 1
1 Roman Expansion and the Pressures of Anarchy 3
2 Rome and Illyria, ca. 230-217 bc 29
3 Rome, the Greek States, and Macedon, 217-205 bc 77
Part II The Power-Transition Crisis in the Greek Mediterranean, 207-200 BC
119
4 The Pact Between the Kings and the Crisis in the Eastern Mediterranean
State-System, 207-200 bc 121
5 Reaction: Diplomatic Revolution in the Mediterranean, 203/202-200 bc 181
6 Diplomatic Revolution in the Mediterranean, II: The Roman Decision to
Intervene, 201/200 bc 230
Part III From Hegemonic War to Hierarchy, 200-170 BC 271
7 Hegemonic War, I: Rome and Macedon, 200-196 bc 273
8 Hegemonic War, II: Rome and Antiochus the Great, 200-188 bc 306
9 Hierarchy and Unipolarity, ca. 188-170 bc 342
Bibliography 382
Index 402