The Roman World from Romulus to Muhammad: A New History

ISBN-13: 9780415842860 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 704 str.

Greg Fisher

Opis

This volume provides a detailed examination of nearly 1,400 years of Roman history, from the foundation of the city in the eighth century BC until the evacuation of Roman troops from Alexandria in AD 642 in the face of the Arab conquests.

Recenzje

"Fisher...deserves great credit for having broken down the wall between Roman history, wrongly perceived as just the history of Greeks and Romans, and the history of all the peoples east of the empire, included the Arabs. Fisher thus masterfully succeeds in highlighting the universal rule that from the ashes of one empire, another is born." - Bryn Mawr Classical Review

"Though chapters follow a recognisably standard periodisation of Roman history, F. makes some distinctive choices within this framework...these choices underscore F.’s dynamic reorientation of the Roman Empire eastwards, and this makes for a provocative reframing of the evolution of Roman imperial power at the intersection of complex global networks." - The Classical Review

Spis treści

List of figures; List of maps; Acknowledgments; Copyright notices; Note to the reader; Chapter One The origins of Rome; Chapter Two The early Republic, 509–280 BC; Chapter Three ‘True athletes of warfare’: Rome, Carthage, and Pyrrhus, 280–225 BC; Chapter Four ‘The empire of the world’: Rome, Greece, Macedonia, and Hannibal, 264–200 BC; Chapter Five ‘Against our own Roman gods’: Rome and the Greek east, 200–146 BC; Chapter Six The collapse of public order, 140–63 BC; Chapter Seven Coup, 63–30 BC; Chapter Eight Monarchy and empire: Augustus, 30 BC–AD 14; Chapter Nine From stability to chaos, AD 14–79; Chapter Ten Consolidating the principate, AD 72–138; Chapter Eleven Decay, 138–235; Chapter Twelve The empire transformed, 235–337; Chapter Thirteen Division and collapse, 337–493; Chapter Fourteen The end of antiquity, 491–642; Glossary; Further reading; Index

O autorze

Greg Fisher is a graduate of the University of Oxford, UK, and the author and editor of  numerous works on the ancient world, including Between Empires (2011), Arabs and Empires Before Islam (2015), Hannibal and Scipio (2015), and Rome, Persia, and Arabia (Routledge 2020).