Greg Fisher

The Roman World from Romulus to Muhammad (eBook, ePUB)

A New History

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume provides a detailed examination of nearly 1,400 years of Roman history, from the foundation of the city in the eighth century BC until the evacuation of Roman troops from Alexandria in AD 642 in the face of the Arab conquests.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 728
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000432695
• Artikelnr.: 62359831

Autorenporträt

Greg Fisher is a graduate of the University of Oxford, UK, and the author and editor of numerous works on the ancient world, including Between Empires (2011), Arabs and Empires Before Islam (2015), Hannibal and Scipio (2015), and Rome, Persia, and Arabia (Routledge 2020).

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
List of maps
Acknowledgments
Copyright notices
Note to the reader
Chapter OneThe origins of Rome
Chapter TwoThe early Republic, 509-280 BC
Chapter Three'True athletes of warfare': Rome, Carthage, and Pyrrhus, 280-225 BC
Chapter Four'The empire of the world': Rome, Greece, Macedonia, and Hannibal, 264-200 BC
Chapter Five'Against our own Roman gods': Rome and the Greek east, 200-146 BC
Chapter SixThe collapse of public order, 140-63 BC
Chapter SevenCoup, 63-30 BC
Chapter Eight Monarchy and empire: Augustus, 30 BC-AD 14
Chapter NineFrom stability to chaos, AD 14-79
Chapter TenConsolidating the principate, AD 72-138
Chapter ElevenDecay, 138-235
Chapter TwelveThe empire transformed, 235-337
Chapter ThirteenDivision and collapse, 337-493
Chapter Fourteen The end of antiquity, 491-642
Glossary
Further reading
Index