Rome (Galaxy Books)
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ISBN: 0195002245 / Publisher: Oxford University Press, December 1960
Examines the leaders, lifestyles, and territorial, military, economic, political, social, and cultural development of the Roman Empire during the fourth and third centuries B.C.
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First published in 1927 this monumental book has long been out of print. Brilliantly written, it stands on its own merits and has not been outdated by new discoveries or research. Rostovtzeff's narrative begins in the fourth century B.C. and concludes with `the social and political catastropheof the third century.' In between, he examines not only the political and military events of these centuries, but the social and economic milieu, the personalities, and the minutiae of day-to-day existence.For this edition, Elias J. Bickerman has prepared a completely new and up-to-date bibliography and contributed brief addenda dealing with recent discoveries and scholarship. The maps of Italy and the Empire have been entirely redrawn, and twenty-three of the most relevant plates from the originaledition have been retained.
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