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In less than fifty-three years, Rome subjected most of the known world to its rule. Written by a team of specialist scholars, this book traces the rise of Rome from its origins as a cluster of villages to the foundation of the Empire and its consolidation in the first two centuries CE. It includes chapters on social and political history, the Emperors, art and architecture, and the works of the leading Roman poets, historians, and philosophers.
Introduction, Jasper Griffin
1.:Early Rome and Italy, Michael Crawford
2.:The Expansion of Rome, Elizabeth Rawson
3.:The First Roman Literature, P. G. McC. Brown
4.:Cicero and Rome, Miriam Griffin
5.:The Poets of the Late Republic, Robin Nisbet
6.:The Founding of the Empire, David Stockton
7.:The Arts of Government, Nicholas Purcell
8.:Augustan Poetry and Society, R O A M Lyne
9.:Virgil, Jasper Griffin
10.:Roman Historians, Andrew Lintott
11.:The Arts of Prose: The Early Empire, Donald Russell
12.:Silver Latin Poetry and the Latin Novel, Richard Jenkyns
13.:Later Philosophy, Anthony Meredith
14.:The Arts of Living, Roger Ling
15.:Roman Life and Society, John Matthews
16.:Roman Art and Architecture, R J A Wilson
17.:Envoi: On Taking Leave of Antiquity, Henry Chadwick
Tables of Events
Index
Περιγραφή
In less than fifty-three years, Rome subjected most of the known world to its rule. Written by a team of specialist scholars, this book traces the rise of Rome from its origins as a cluster of villages to the foundation of the Empire and its consolidation in the first two centuries CE. It includes chapters on social and political history, the Emperors, art and architecture, and the works of the leading Roman poets, historians, and philosophers.