The breakdown of the Roman republic : from oligarchy to empire

1. Verfasser: Mackay, Christopher S., 1962- , [VerfasserIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Cambridge : New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Umfang/Format: ix, 445 pages, [38] pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Schlagworte:
iDAI.gazetteer: Imperium Romanum
Inhalte/Bestandteile: 2 Datensätze
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Historical background
  • Tribunate of Ti. Gracchus
  • Tribunates of C. Gracchus
  • Numidia, senatorial failures, and the rise of C. Marius
  • Ascendancy of C. Marius
  • The Italian allies, M. Livius Drusus, and the social war
  • Sulla, Marius, and civil war
  • Roman territorial expansion before the first Mithridatic War
  • The first Mithridatic War
  • Sulla's victory in civil war
  • Sulla's settlement
  • The 70s B.C. : attacks on the Sullan regime and the rise of Pompey
  • Third Mithridatic War, war with the pirates, and the ascendancy of Pompey
  • The 60s B.C. : Rome in the absence of Pompey
  • Consulship of Cicero
  • Consulship of C. Caesar
  • Caesar in Gaul
  • Last decade of the free republic
  • Civil war and Caesar's victory
  • Caesar's domination and assassination
  • Turmoil after the Ides of March
  • Struggle of the warlords
  • Final showdown
  • The Augustan Settlement and the "restored" republic.