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Ancient Rome

Title
Ancient Rome / William E. Dunstan.
Author
Dunstan, William E.
Publication
Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, c2011.

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Description
xxxiii, 597 p. : ill., maps; 27 cm
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Early Italy -- Origins of Rome -- The young republic -- Roman conquest of Italy -- Duel with Carthage -- Roman conquest of the Mediterranean world -- Impact of overseas conquests on the senatorial oligarchy -- Impact of overseas conquests on the economic and social organization of Italy -- Greek cultural influences on Rome -- Rival conceptions of state and society plague Roman politics : from the Gracchi to the Social War -- Sulla -- Pompey and Caesar -- Antony and Octavian wrestle for empire : final dissolution of the old republican order -- Economic, social, and cultural climate of the late republic -- Augustus and the founding of the Roman Empire -- Augustan social and religious policy -- Augustan art and literature and the Augustan legacy --
  • From Tiberius to Nero : the Julio-Claudian dynasty -- From Vespasian to Domitian : the Flavian dynasty -- From Nerva to Marcus Aurelius : the five good emperors -- Government, economy, and society in the first and second centuries -- Architecture and sculpture in the first and second centuries -- Literature in the first and second centuries -- Commodus and the Severan dynasty -- Third-century imperial crisis and first phase of recovery -- Reorganization of Diocletian and Constantine -- Last years of the united empire -- Society and culture in the later empire -- Rise of Christianity -- Christian triumph and controversy -- Dismemberment of the Roman Empire in the West -- Epilogue : the thousand-year survival of the Roman Empire in the East.
Call Number
JFF 15-1362
ISBN
  • 9780742568327 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0742568326 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780742568334 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0742568334 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780742568341 (electronic)
  • 0742568342 (electronic)
LCCN
2010016225
OCLC
609102335
Author
Dunstan, William E.
Title
Ancient Rome / William E. Dunstan.
Imprint
Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, c2011.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Research Call Number
JFF 15-1362
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