The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic write by Harriet I. Flower. This book was released on 2014-06-23. The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This second edition examines all aspects of Roman history, and contains a new introduction, three new chapters and updated bibliographies.
Crisis Management during the Roman Republic
Crisis Management during the Roman Republic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Crisis Management during the Roman Republic write by Gregory K. Golden. This book was released on 2013-04-22. Crisis Management during the Roman Republic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'Crisis' is the defining word for our times and it likewise played a key role in defining the scope of government during the Roman Republic. This book is a comprehensive analysis of key incidents in the history of the Republic that can be characterized as crises, and the institutional response mechanisms that were employed by the governing apparatus to resolve them. Concentrating on military and other violent threats to the stability of the governing system, this book highlights both the strengths and weaknesses of the institutional framework that the Romans created. Looking at key historical moments, Gregory K. Golden considers how the Romans defined a crisis and what measures were taken to combat them, including declaring a state of emergency, suspending all non-war-related business, and instituting an emergency military draft, as well as resorting to rule by dictator in the early Republic.
Mortal Republic
Mortal Republic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mortal Republic write by Edward J. Watts. This book was released on 2018-11-06. Mortal Republic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Learn why the Roman Republic collapsed -- and how it could have continued to thrive -- with this insightful history from an award-winning author. In Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J. Watts offers a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why Rome exchanged freedom for autocracy. For centuries, even as Rome grew into the Mediterranean's premier military and political power, its governing institutions, parliamentary rules, and political customs successfully fostered negotiation and compromise. By the 130s BC, however, Rome's leaders increasingly used these same tools to cynically pursue individual gain and obstruct their opponents. As the center decayed and dysfunction grew, arguments between politicians gave way to political violence in the streets. The stage was set for destructive civil wars -- and ultimately the imperial reign of Augustus. The death of Rome's Republic was not inevitable. In Mortal Republic, Watts shows it died because it was allowed to, from thousands of small wounds inflicted by Romans who assumed that it would last forever.
End of the Roman Republic 146 to 44 BC
End of the Roman Republic 146 to 44 BC - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook End of the Roman Republic 146 to 44 BC write by Catherine Steel. This book was released on 2013-03-05. End of the Roman Republic 146 to 44 BC available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 146 BC the armies of Rome destroyed Carthage and emerged as the decisive victors of the Third Punic War. The Carthaginian population was sold and its territory became the Roman province of Africa. In the same year and on the other side of the Mediterranean Roman troops sacked Corinth, the final blow in the defeat of the Achaean conspiracy: thereafter Greece was effectively administered by Rome. Rome was now supreme in Italy, the Balkans, Greece, Macedonia, Sicily, and North Africa, and its power and influence were advancing in all directions. However, not all was well. The unchecked seizure of huge tracts of land in Italy and its farming by vast numbers of newly imported slaves allowed an elite of usually absentee landlords to amass enormous and conspicuous fortunes. Insecurity and resentment fed the gulf between rich and poor in Rome and erupted in a series of violent upheavals in the politics and institutions of the Republic. These were exacerbated by slave revolts and invasions from the east.
The Roman Empire in Crisis, 248–260
The Roman Empire in Crisis, 248–260 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Roman Empire in Crisis, 248–260 write by Paul N. Pearson. This book was released on 2022-05-05. The Roman Empire in Crisis, 248–260 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “A clear, brisk writer, Pearson is also quite thorough, taking a holistic attitude to the many facets of a confused, turbulent period.” —NYMAS Review This book is a narrative history of a dozen years of turmoil that begins with Rome’s millennium celebrations of 248 CE and ends with the capture of the emperor Valerian by the Persians in 260. It was a period of almost unremitting disaster for Rome, involving a series of civil wars, several major invasions by Goths and Persians, economic crisis, and an empire-wide pandemic, the “plague of Cyprian.” There was also sustained persecution of the Christians. A central theme of the book is that this was a period of moral and spiritual crisis in which the traditional state religion suffered greatly in prestige, paving the way for the eventual triumph of Christianity. The sensational recent discovery of extensive fragments of the lost Scythica of Dexippus sheds much new light on the Gothic Wars of the period. The author has used this new evidence in combination with in-depth investigations in the field to develop a revised account of events surrounding the great Battle of Abritus, in which the army of the emperor Decius was annihilated by Cniva’s Goths. The Roman Empire in Crisis, 248-260 sheds new light on a period that is pivotal for understanding the transition between Classical civilization and the period known as Late Antiquity.
