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Rome's Revolution: Death of the Republic & Birth of the Empire: Ancient Warfare and Civilization

Autor Richard Alston
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 22 iul 2015
Novelized, televised, and endlessly scrutinized by scholars, the fall of the Roman Republic marks one of history's great turning points. Historians have studied the descent of the Republic into civil war as a great political tragedy, a warning from the past about the unsustainability of empires; political scientists have labeled it a parable about militarism, populism, moral decay, or the inevitable corruption of political systems. Yet the familiar story of the Roman Republic's downfall continues to be the story of its elites. What if we started thinking about Roman politics not from the perspectives of Caesar and Cicero, but from the point of view of the soldier, the peasant, or the pauper? In an original account of what he calls Rome's revolution, Richard Alston reinscribes these humble protagonists into their tumultuous era. They, like the ruthless aristocrats they swore allegiance to, were political agents, negotiating their positions in the context of a "failed state."Rome's Revolution blends riveting historical narrative with socio-economic analysis, restoring a rich context to the cataclysmic violence of the period. In addition to chronicling the drama of aristocratic rivalries, the book digs beneath the high politics of Cicero, Caesar, Antony and Octavian to examine the problems of making a living in first-century BC Italy. Portraying the revolution as the crisis of a violent society--both among the citizenry and among a ruling class whose legitimacy was dwindling--Rome's Revolution provides new insight into the motivations that drove men to march on their capital city and slaughter their compatriots.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780199739769
ISBN-10: 0199739765
Pagini: 408
Ilustrații: illustrations
Dimensiuni: 157 x 236 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Seria Ancient Warfare and Civilization

Locul publicării:New York, United States

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A very pleasant read and highly recommended for both specialists and fans of Roman history.
Well written and engaging, ideal for students and scholars, but also accessible for non-specialists.
this book, written in straightforward, accessible, English, is recommended as a knowledgeable guide to, and with a fresh 'take' on, an enthralling period of Roman history.

Notă biografică

Richard Alston is Professor of Roman History at Royal Holloway, University of London, and the author or editor of over a dozen books on ancient Rome and antiquity.