A history of Rome down to the reign of Constantine. Second Edition

Cary, Max, 1881-1958

Verlag: Macmillan; St. Martins Press, London, New York, 1965

Beschreibung

DETAILS: worn price-clipped dust-jacket with several chips and tears, paper and binding very good, with foxing on top foredge, blue cloth covers a bit worn and scuffed with surface scratches and scrapes along bottom edges, rather skewed from reading or shelving, but still a very good copy for use and study. CARY, MAX. A history of Rome down to the reign of Constantine. Second Edition. London, New York: Macmillan; St. Martins Press, 1965, 2d edition of 1954 reprinted, xvi, 820pp., . Classical work on the history of the Roman Empire - For senior history students - Many illustrations of Roman antiquities - three fold-in maps in text. - CONTENTS: Part A. Pre-Roman Italy -- The geographical environment of Roman history -- The early inhabitants of Italy -- Greeks and Etruscans in early Italy -- Part B. The Roman conquest of Italy -- Latium and Rome -- The sources for early Roman history -- Rome in the period of the kings -- The early wars of the Republic -- The conflict of the orders. The first stage -- The Latin, Samnite and Pyrrhic Wars -- The conflict of the orders. The second stage -- The Roman state in the third century B.C. -- Part C. The conquest of the Mediterranean -- The First Punic War and the conquest of North Italy -- The Second Punic War -- The conquest of the western Mediterranean -- The Macedonian Wars -- The Roman Wars in Asia in the second century -- The government of the Roman provinces -- Domestic politics in the second century -- Roman society in the second century -- Part D. The fall of the Republic -- Tiberius and Caius Gracchus -- Marius and the new Roman army -- The Italian Wars, 91-83 B.C. -- The temporary monarchy of Cornelius Sulla -- The wars of Lucullus, Pompey and Crassus -- The fall of the restoration government -- Caesar's conquest of Gaul and the breakdown of the first triumvirate -- The rise of Caesar to supreme power -- The second triumvirate -- Roman society in the first century -- Part E. The consolidation of the Roman Empire -- The settlement of Augustus. Rome and Italy -- The Roman Empire under Augustus -- The Julio-Claudian emperors. Internal affairs -- The Roman Empire under the Julio-Claudian dynasty -- Roman society under the early Roman emperors -- The "year of the four emperors" -- The Flavian emperors -- The "give good emperors". General administration -- The "five good emperors". External affairs -- Roman society from A.D. 70 to 180 -- Commodus and the Severi -- Part F. The decline of the Roman Empire -- The crisis of the Empire in the third century -- The Roman world c. A.D. 330. Political conditions -- The Roman world c. A.D. 330. Life and thought -- The Roman Empire. Retrospect and prospect -- The Roman emperors from Augustus to Constantine -- Genealogy of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: A history of Rome down to the reign of Constantine. Second Edition
• Verlag: Macmillan; St. Martins Press, London, New York
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1965
• Sprache: Englisch
• Einband: hardcover
• Zustand: Good
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: includes dust-jacket
• Gewicht: 26,6 Unzen
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