Rome's Revolution

Rome's Revolution
Title Rome's Revolution PDF eBook
Author Richard Alston
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 409
Release 2015-05-06
Genre History
ISBN 0190231602

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On March 15th, 44 BC a group of senators stabbed Julius Caesar, the dictator of Rome. By his death, they hoped to restore Rome's Republic. Instead, they unleashed a revolution. By December of that year, Rome was plunged into a violent civil war. Three men--Mark Antony, Lepidus, and Octavian--emerged as leaders of a revolutionary regime, which crushed all opposition. In time, Lepidus was removed, Antony and Cleopatra were dispatched, and Octavian stood alone as sole ruler of Rome. He became Augustus, Rome's first emperor, and by the time of his death in AD 14 the 500-year-old republic was but a distant memory and the birth of one of history's greatest empires was complete. Rome's Revolution provides a riveting narrative of this tumultuous period of change. Historian Richard Alston digs beneath the high politics of Cicero, Caesar, Antony, and Octavian to reveal the experience of the common Roman citizen and soldier. He portrays the revolution as the crisis of a brutally competitive society, both among the citizenry and among the ruling class whose legitimacy was under threat. Throughout, he sheds new light on the motivations that drove men to march on their capital city and slaughter their compatriots. He also shows the reasons behind and the immediate legacy of the awe inspiringly successful and ruthless reign of Emperor Augustus. An enthralling story of ancient warfare, social upheaval, and personal betrayal, Rome's Revolution offers an authoritative new account of an epoch which still haunts us today.

Revolution in Rome

Revolution in Rome
Title Revolution in Rome PDF eBook
Author David F. Wells
Publisher IVP Books
Pages 164
Release 1972
Genre Religion
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The First Global Revolution

The First Global Revolution
Title The First Global Revolution PDF eBook
Author Alexander King
Publisher
Pages 234
Release 1992
Genre
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Rome's Economic Revolution

Rome's Economic Revolution
Title Rome's Economic Revolution PDF eBook
Author Philip Kay
Publisher
Pages 401
Release 2014
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 0199681546

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Kay examines the economic change in Rome between the Second Punic War and the middle of the first century BC. He focuses on how the increased inflow of bullion and expansion of the availability of credit resulted in real per capita economic growth in the Italian peninsula, radically changing the composition and scale of the Roman economy.

Rome, the Greek World, and the East

Rome, the Greek World, and the East
Title Rome, the Greek World, and the East PDF eBook
Author Fergus Millar
Publisher Univ of North Carolina Press
Pages 414
Release 2003-01-14
Genre History
ISBN 0807875082

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Fergus Millar is one of the most influential contemporary historians of the ancient world. His essays and books, including The Emperor in the Roman World and The Roman Near East, have enriched our understanding of the Greco-Roman world in fundamental ways. In his writings Millar has made the inhabitants of the Roman Empire central to our conception of how the empire functioned. He also has shown how and why Rabbinic Judaism, Christianity, and Islam evolved from within the wider cultural context of the Greco-Roman world. Opening this collection of sixteen essays is a new contribution by Millar in which he defends the continuing significance of the study of Classics and argues for expanding the definition of what constitutes that field. In this volume he also questions the dominant scholarly interpretation of politics in the Roman Republic, arguing that the Roman people, not the Senate, were the sovereign power in Republican Rome. In so doing he sheds new light on the establishment of a new regime by the first Roman emperor, Caesar Augustus.

The Roman Revolution

The Roman Revolution
Title The Roman Revolution PDF eBook
Author Ronald Syme
Publisher OUP Oxford
Pages 592
Release 2002-08-08
Genre History
ISBN 0191647187

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The Roman Revolution is a profound and unconventional treatment of a great theme - the fall of the Republic and the decline of freedom in Rome between 60 BC and AD 14, and the rise to power of the greatest of the Roman Emperors, Augustus. The transformation of state and society, the violent transference of power and property, and the establishment of Augustus' rule are presented in an unconventional narrative, which quotes from ancient evidence, refers seldomly to modern authorities, and states controversial opinions quite openly. The result is a book which is both fresh and compelling.

Rome's Cultural Revolution

Rome's Cultural Revolution
Title Rome's Cultural Revolution PDF eBook
Author Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 0
Release 2008-11-06
Genre Art
ISBN 0521896843

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An original interpretation of the fundamental transformations of Rome's society, culture and identity during the period of its imperial expansion.