Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and Their Decline,9780872204966

Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and Their Decline

by Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, baron de; Lowenthal, David
ISBN13: 9780872204966
ISBN10: 0872204960
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-01-01
Publisher(s): Hackett Pub Co Inc
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Summary

Reprints Lowenthal's translation with notes, published in 1965 by The Free Press. In one of his lesser known efforts, the great French essayist Montesquieu (1689-1755) starts with the beginnings of Rome and considers the characteristics of the people, the expansion, and the empire. Then he chronicles its decline, reign by reign, until there is nothing left of the Western Empire and he leaps to the Eastern. The French original was published in 1734 in Holland.

Table of Contents

Translator's Preface vii
Introduction 1(22)
Beginnings of Rome; Its Wars
23(10)
The Art of War Among the Romans
33(6)
How the Romans were Able to Expand
39(4)
The Gauls; Pyrrhus; Comparison of Carthage and Rome; Hannibal's War
43(12)
The Condition of Greece, Macedonia, Syria, and Egypt After the Reduction of the Carthaginians
55(12)
The Conduct the Romans Pursued to Subjugate all Peoples
67(12)
How Mithridates was able to Resist them
79(4)
The Dissensions that Always Existed in the City
83(8)
Two Causes of Rome's Ruin
91(6)
The Corruption of the Romans
97(4)
Sulla; Pompey and Caesar
101(12)
The Condition of Rome After Caesar's Death
113(6)
Augustus
119(10)
Tiberius
129(6)
The Emperors from Caius Caligula to Antoninus
135(10)
The Condition of the Empire, from Antoninus to Probus
145(12)
Change in the State
157(10)
New Maxims Adopted by the Romans
167(8)
Attila's Greatness; Cause of the Settlement of the Barbarians; Reasons why the Western Empire was the First to Fall
175(10)
Justinian's Conquest; His Government
185(10)
Disorders of the Eastern Empire
195(6)
Weakness of the Eastern Empire
201(12)
Reason for the Duration of the Eastern Empire; its Destruction
213(8)
Index 221

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