Rome and the Making of a World State, 150 BCE–20 CE - Couverture rigide

Osgood, Josiah

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1107029899 ISBN 13 : 9781107029897

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2018

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

In the century following 150 BCE, the Romans developed a coherent vision of empire and a more systematic provincial administration. The city of Rome itself became a cultural and intellectual center that eclipsed other Mediterranean cities, while ideas and practices of citizenship underwent radical change. In this book, Josiah Osgood offers a new survey of this most vivid period of Roman history, the Late Republic. While many discussions focus on politics in the city of Rome itself, his account examines developments throughout the Mediterranean and ties political events more firmly to the growth of overseas empire. The volume includes a broad overview of economic and cultural developments. By extending the story well beyond the conventional stopping date of Julius Caesar's assassination in 44 BCE, Osgood ultimately moves away from the old paradigm of the fall of the Republic. The Romans of the Late Republic emerge less as the disreputable gangsters of popular imagination and more as inspired innovators.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Josiah Osgood is Professor of Classics at Georgetown University, Washington, DC, where he teaches Roman history and Latin literature. He has published numerous books and articles, including Caesar's Legacy: Civil War and the Emergence of the Roman Empire (Cambridge, 2006) and Turia: a Roman Woman's Civil War (2014). Osgood's academic interests include civil war, the figure of the Roman emperor, and ancient biography, historiography, and satire. He lives in Washington, DC.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1107029899
• ISBN 13: 9781107029897
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 284