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Subject(s)

• History, Ancient [Browse]
• Rome—History—Kings, 753-510 B.C. [Browse]
• Rome—History—Republic, 510-30 B.C. [Browse]

Related name

• Cornell, Tim [Browse]

Series

• Routledge Classics [More in this series]
• Routledge classics

Summary note

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 HistorianThe city of Rome created the foundations of an empire that would come to challenge and conquer the great civilizations of Europe and the Near East. H.H. Scullard's definitive and highly acclaimed study reveals the peculiar genius of the Roman people, their predil

Notes

Reprinted with a new foreword. Originally published: 1980.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language note

English

Contents

• Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; 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 I ROME AND ITALY; I The Land and Its Peoples; 1 The land; 2 Early man; 3 The Copper and Bronze Ages; 4 The Early Iron Age Villanovans; 5 The Italic peoples; 6 Greeks, Phoenicians and Celts; 7 The Etruscans; 8 Etruscan culture; 9 The Etruscan Empire; 10 Early Latium; II Regal Rome; 1 The foundation of Rome: archaeological evidence; 2 The foundation of Rome: the legends
• 3 The early kings4 The sixth-century kings; 5 Etruscan Rome; 6 Nobles, commons and the priesthood; 7 Political organization; 8 The fall of the monarchy; III The New Republic and the Struggle of the Orders; 1 The Republican government; 2 Land and debt; 3 A state within the state; 4 The decemvirs and law; 5 The weakening of patrician control; IV The Roman Republic and its Neighbours; 1 The Triple Alliance; 2 The Sabines, Aequi and Volsci; 3 The duel with Veii; 4 The Gallic catastrophe; 5 The recovery of Rome; 6 Rome's widening horizon; 7 The end of the Latin League
• V The Union of the Orders and the Constitution1 Economic distress; 2 Victories of the plebeians; 3 Social and political adjustments; 4 The magistrates and Senate; 5 The assemblies and people; VI Rome's Conquest and Organization of Italy; 1 Rome and Campania; 2 The Great Samnite War; 3 Rome's triumphant advance; 4 The Greeks of southern Italy; 5 The Italian adventure of Pyrrhus; 6 The end of pre-Roman Italy; 7 The Roman confederacy; PART II ROME AND CARTHAGE; VII The First Struggle; 1 The Carthaginian Empire; 2 Carthage; 3 The causes of the war; 4 Rome's naval offensive
• 5 Rome's offensive in Africa6 Stalemate and checkmate; VIII The Entr'acte; 1 The province of Sicily; 2 Carthage and the Sardinian question; 3 Rome and the Gauls; 4 The Illyrian pirates; 5 The Punic Empire in Spain; 6 The causes of the Second Punic War; IX Hannibal's Offensive and Rome's Defensive; 1 Hannibal's invasion of northern Italy; 2 Hannibal in central Italy; 3 The Scipios and Spain; 4 The extension of the war to Macedon; 5 Marcellus and Sicily; 6 Fabius and Rome's defensive; X Scipio and Rome's Offensive; 1 Scipio's conquest of Spain; 2 The war in Italy
• 3 The Roman offensive in Africa4 Victory and peace; PART III ROME AND THE MEDITERRANEAN; XI Rome and Greece; 1 The Hellenistic world; 2 The outbreak of war; 3 The causes of the war; 4 The Second Macedonian War; 5 The settlement of Greece; XII Rome and Antiochus; 1 The diplomatic conflict; 2 The war in Greece; 3 The war in Asia; 4 The settlement of the east; XIII Rome and the Eastern Mediterranean; 1 The growing tension; 2 The Third Macedonian War; 3 The Hellenistic east; 4 The end of Greek independence; XIV Rome, Italy and the Western Mediterranean; 1 The northern frontier
• 2 Cato and Gracchus in Spain

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ISBN

• 1-136-24635-5
• 1-283-60929-0
• 9786613921741
• 1-136-24636-3
• 0-203-10379-3

OCLC

811140119

Doi

• 10.4324/9780203103791

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