Rome and the making of a world state, 150 BCE-20 CE

The Resource Rome and the making of a world state, 150 BCE-20 CE

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Rome and the making of a world state, 150 BCE-20 CE

Statement of responsibility

Josiah Osgood (Georgetown University, Washington, DC)

Language

eng

Summary

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

Cataloging source

ERASA

Dewey number

930

Illustrations

illustrations
maps

Index

index present

LC call number

DG231

LC item number

.O75 2018

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

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