Ancient Rome
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| Language: | English |
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Lanham, Md. :
Rowman & Littlefield,
2011.
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Table of 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.