Josiah Osgood

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 596g
• ISBN-13: 9781107029897
• ISBN-10: 1107029899
• Artikelnr.: 48456451

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

1. From world power to world state: an introduction; 2. The new world power: the Empire and imperial affairs (150
139 BCE); 3. The city of Rome: scene of politics and growing metropolis; 4. The struggle for reform (150
104 BCE); 5. The spiral of violence (104
80 BCE); 6. Italy and the reinvention of Rome (150
50 BCE); 7. Rome between Republic and Empire: the stuck elephant (80
60 BCE); 8. Rival leaders and the search for power bases (66
50 BCE); 9. The course of empire: provincial government and society (90
50 BCE); 10. World city: society and culture in Rome (85
45 BCE); 11. War of the world (49
30 BCE); 12. Principate: government for the world state (30
6 BCE); 13. The New Age: refashioning culture and society (30
5 BCE); 14. The world state tested (4 BCE
20 CE).