520 Pages
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Routledge
520 Pages
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Routledge
520 Pages
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Routledge
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With a new foreword by Tim Cornell
‘Can anyone be so indifferent or idle as not to care to know by what means and under what kind of polity almost the whole inhabited world was conquered and bought under the dominion of a single city of Rome?’ – Polybius, Greek Historian
The city of Rome created the foundations of an empire that would come to challenge and conquer the great... Read more
List of Maps Foreword to the Routledge Classics Edition Preface to first edition Preface to second edition Preface to third edition Preface to fourth edition Introduction Part 1 Rome and Italy 1. The Land and Its Peoples 2. Regal Rome 3. The New Republic and the Struggle of the Orders 4. The Roman Republic and Its Neighbours 5. The Union of The Orders and The Constitution 6. Rome's Conquest and Organization of Italy Part 2 Rome and Carthage 7. The First Struggle 8. The Entr'acte 9. Hannibal's Offensive and Rome's Defensive 10. Scipio and Rome's Offensive Part 3 Rome and the Mediterranean 11. Rome and Greece 12. Rome and Antiochus 13. Rome and the Eastern Mediterranean 14. Rome, Italy and the Western Mediterranean 15. Roman Policy and the Government Part 4 Roman Life and Culture 16. Economic and Social Organization 17. Literature and Art 18. Roman Religion 19. Sources and Authorities Chronological Table Select Bibliography Abbreviations Notes Index
Biography
H. H. Scullard (1903-1983) taught at New College Oxford from 1935 to 1939 before becoming Professor of Ancient History at King’s College London. His many books include the Oxford Classical Dictionary and From the Gracchi to Nero which is also in the Routledge Classics series.
