Ancient Rome

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Autore principale: Dunstan, William E.
Ente Autore: ebrary, Inc
Natura: Elettronico eBook
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, 2011.
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Sommario:
  • 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.