The Roman Empire: A Very Short Introduction
The Roman Empire was a remarkable achievement. It had a population of sixty million people spread across lands encircling the Mediterranean and stretching from drizzle-soaked northern England to the sun-baked banks of the Euphrates in Syria, and from the Rhine to the North African coast. It was, above all else, an empire of force - employing a mixture of violence, suppression, order, and tactical use of power to develop an astonishingly uniform culture.This Very Short Introduction covers the history of the Empire from Augustus (the first Emperor) to Marcus Aurelius, describing how the empire was formed, how it was run, its religions and its…
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- ISBN: 978-0-19-157784-0
- EAN: 9780191577840
- Produktnummer: 13899189
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 19'427 KB
- Abbildungen: 25 halftones
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Christopher Kelly is University Lecturer in Classics, Director of Studies in Classics, and Senior Tutor of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He regularly writes for the Times Literary Supplement, he is an editor of the Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society, and has contributed major chapters to the Cambridge Ancient History, The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine, and to Harvard University Press' Late Antiquity: A Guideto the Postclassical World. His monograph, Ruling the Later Roman Empire was published by Harvard in 2004.
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