Rome's Mediterranean Empire
Books 41-45 and the Periochae
'I will do as the Senate decrees.' These words from one of Rome's opponents encapsulate the authority Rome achieved by its subjugation of the Mediterranean. The Third Macedonian War, recounted in this volume, ended the kingdom created by Philip II and Alexander the Great and was a crucial step in Rome's eventual dominance. For Livy, the story is also a fascinating moral study of the vices and virtues that hampered and promoted Rome's efforts in the conflict. He presents the war not so much as a battle against Perseus, Alexander's last and unworthy successor, than as a struggle within the Roman national character. Only traditional moral streng…
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Weitere Autoren: Chaplin, Jane D. (Associate Professor of Classics at Middlebury College,Vermont) (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-19-955602-1
- EAN: 9780199556021
- Produktnummer: 4533046
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 432 S.
- Masse: H19.6 cm x B13.0 cm x D2.7 cm 312 g
- Abbildungen: 4 maps
- Gewicht: 312
- Sonstiges: Undergraduate
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