- 240 pages
- English
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About this book
"A fast-paced narrative history of the dying years of the Republic, and one grounded in the characters, events, and voices of the period." —
Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Rome: Republic into Empire looks at the political and social reasons why Rome repeatedly descended into civil war in the early 1st century BCE and why these conflicts continued for most of the century; it describes and examines the protagonists, their military skills, their political aims and the battles they fought and lost; it discusses the consequences of each battle and how the final conflict led to a seismic change in the Roman political system with the establishment of an autocratic empire.
This is not just another arid chronological list of battles, their winners and their losers. Using a wide range of literary and archaeological evidence, Paul Chrystal offers a rare insight into the wars, battles and politics of this most turbulent and consequential of ancient world centuries; in so doing, it gives us an eloquent and exciting political, military and social history of ancient Rome during one of its most cataclysmic and crucial periods, explaining why and how the civil wars led to the establishment of one of the greatest empires the world has known.
"More than a list of battles, their winners and losers. We are given a complete picture of Roman and Italian society from aristocrats to peasants and slaves." — Army Rumour Service (ARRSE)
Rome: Republic into Empire looks at the political and social reasons why Rome repeatedly descended into civil war in the early 1st century BCE and why these conflicts continued for most of the century; it describes and examines the protagonists, their military skills, their political aims and the battles they fought and lost; it discusses the consequences of each battle and how the final conflict led to a seismic change in the Roman political system with the establishment of an autocratic empire.
This is not just another arid chronological list of battles, their winners and their losers. Using a wide range of literary and archaeological evidence, Paul Chrystal offers a rare insight into the wars, battles and politics of this most turbulent and consequential of ancient world centuries; in so doing, it gives us an eloquent and exciting political, military and social history of ancient Rome during one of its most cataclysmic and crucial periods, explaining why and how the civil wars led to the establishment of one of the greatest empires the world has known.
"More than a list of battles, their winners and losers. We are given a complete picture of Roman and Italian society from aristocrats to peasants and slaves." — Army Rumour Service (ARRSE)
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Table of contents
- Cover
- By the same author
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- Contents
- List of Plates
- Maps
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: How did it come to this?
- Chapter 2: The Social War (91–87 BCE)
- Chapter 3: Sulla’s First Civil War (88–87 BCE)
- Chapter 4: Sulla’s Second Civil War (82–81 BCE)
- Chapter 5: The Spartacus Revolt (73–71 BCE)
- Chapter 6: The Catiline Conspiracy (63–62 BCE)
- Chapter 7: The Carrhae Disaster (53 BCE)
- Chapter 8: The First Triumvirate: Julius Caesar, Pompey the Great and Marcus Licinius Crassus (59–53 BCE)
- Chapter 9: Caesar’s Gallic Wars (58–50 BCE)
- Chapter 10: Caesar’s Civil War (49–45 BCE)
- Chapter 11: Power Politics and Assassination (44–43 BCE)
- Chapter 12: The Second Triumvirate: Octavian, Mark Antony and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (43–33 BCE)
- Chapter 13: Actium and Empire
- Chapter 14: The Cleopatra Effect
- Chapter 15: The Social and Literary Impact
- Endnotes
- Timeline
- Bibliography
- Primary Sources
- Websites
- Some Latin Terms
- Appendix 1 Typical cursus honorum in the first century BCE
- Appendix 2 Roman Assemblies
- Plate Section