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Edward J. Watts

Mortal Republic

How Rome Fell into Tyranny

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In 22 BC, amid a series of natural disasters and political and economic crises, a mob locked Rome's senators into the Senate House and threatened to burn them alive if they did not make Augustus dictator. Why did Rome--to this day one of the world's longest-lived republics--exchange freedom for autocracy?Mortal Republic is a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why Rome made this trade. Prizewinning historian Edward J. Watts shows how, for centuries, Rome's governing institutions, parliamentary rules, and political customs succeeded in fostering compromise and negotiation. Even amid moments of crisis like Hannibal's inv… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-465-09381-6
  • EAN: 9780465093816
  • Produktnummer: 26700203
  • Verlag: Little, Brown and Company
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
  • Seitenangabe: 352 S.
  • Masse: H24.4 cm x B16.4 cm x D3.4 cm 579 g
  • Gewicht: 579

Über den Autor


Edward J. Watts holds the Alkiviadis Vassiliadis endowed Chair and is professor of history at the University of California, San Diego. The author and editor of several prize-winning books, including The Final Pagan Generation, he lives in Carlsbad, California.

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