The Roman Empire,9780674777705

The Roman Empire

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Edition: 2nd
ISBN13: 9780674777705
ISBN10: 0674777700
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1995-08-11
Publisher(s): Harvard Univ Pr
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Summary

This sweeping history of the Roman Empire from 44 B.C. to A.D. 235 has three purposes: to describe what was happening in the central administration and in the entourage of the emperor; to indicate how life went on in Italy and the provinces, in the towns, in the countryside, and in the army camps; and to show how these two different worlds impinged on each other. Colin Wells's vivid account is now available in an up-to-date second edition.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition vii
List of Maps and Illustrations
xi
List of Abbreviations
xiii
Introduction 1(10)
The New Order
11(20)
The Sources
31(18)
The Work of Augustus
49(30)
Italy under Augustus: the Social and Intellectual Climate
79(16)
The consolidation of the Principate
95(28)
The Army and the Provinces in the First Century AD
123(29)
`Emperors Made Elsewhere than at Rome': Galba to Trajan
152(23)
The State of Italy from Petronius to Pliny
175(27)
The Orderly Government of the Empire: Hadrian to Marcus Aurelius
202(21)
``The Immeasurable Majesty of the Roman Peace'
223(33)
An Age of Transition: Commodus to Maximinus the Thracian
256(17)
Maps 273(18)
Lists of dates:
Reigns of Roman Emperors, Augustus to Diocletian
285(1)
Greek and Latin Authors Mentioned in this Book
286(5)
Further Reading 291(42)
Index of Citations 333(8)
General Index 341

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