The Dawn of the Roman Empire -  Livy

The Dawn of the Roman Empire

Books 31-40

(Autor)

Waldemar Heckel (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover
656 Seiten
2009
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-955568-0 (ISBN)
16,20 inkl. MwSt
'With a single announcement from a herald, all the cities of Greece and Asia had been set free; only an intrepid soul could formulate such an ambitious project, only phenomenal valour and fortune bring it to fruition. (Livy, 33. 33)

Thus Livy describes the reaction to the Roman commander T.Q. Flamininus' proclamation of the freedom of Greece at the Isthmian games near Corinth in 196 BC. Half a century later Greece was annexed as a province of the Romans who burned the ancient city of Corinth to the ground.

Books 31 to 40 of Livy's history chart Rome's emergence as an imperial nation and the Romans tempestuous involvement with Greece, Macedonia and the near East in the opening decades of the second century BC; they are our most important source for Graeco-Roman relations in that century. Livy's dramatic narrative includes the Roman campaigns in Spain and against the Gallic tribes of Northern Italy; the flight of Hannibal from Carthage and his death in the East; the debate on the Oppian law; and the Bacchanalian Episode.

This is the only unabridged English translation of Books 31 to 40.
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Erscheint lt. Verlag 30.7.2009
Reihe/Serie Oxford World's Classics
Übersetzer J. C. Yardley
Zusatzinfo 4 maps
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 130 x 196 mm
Gewicht 446 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Vor- und Frühgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie Altertum / Antike
ISBN-10 0-19-955568-0 / 0199555680
ISBN-13 978-0-19-955568-0 / 9780199555680
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