Research Catalog

Title

Rome : Republic into Empire : the civil wars of the first centry BCE / Paul Chrystal.

Author

Chrystal, Paul

Publication

Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword Military, an imprint of Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 2019.

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Details

Description

xvii, 243 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps; 24 cm

Summary

Rome: Republic into Empire looks at the political and social reasons why Rome repeatedly descended into civil war in the early 1st century BCE and why these conflicts continued for most of the century; it describes and examines the protagonists, their military skills, their political aims and the battles they fought and lost; it discusses the consequences of each battle and how the final conflict led to a seismic change in the Roman political system with the establishment of an autocratic empire. This is not just another arid chronological list of battles, their winners and their losers. Using a wide range of literary and archaeological evidence, Paul Chrystal offers a rare insight into the wars, battles and politics of this most turbulent and consequential of ancient world centuries; in so doing, it gives us an eloquent and exciting political, military and social history of ancient Rome during one of its most cataclysmic and crucial periods, explaining why and how the civil wars led to the establishment of one of the greatest empires the world has known.

Subjects

• Civil War (Rome : 43-31 B.C.)
• Civil War (Rome : 49-45 B.C.)
• Rome > History > Republic, 265-30 B.C
• Rome (Empire)
• 265-30 B.C
• Rome > History > Civil War, 49-45 B.C
• Rome > History > Civil War, 43-31 B.C
• History

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references, webology and index.

Contents

Chapter 1: How did it come to this? -- Chapter 2: The Social War (91-87 BCE) -- Chapter 3: Sulla's First Civil War (88-87 BCE) -- Chapter 4: Sulla's Second Civil War (82-81 BCE) -- Chapter 5: The Spartacus Revolt (73-71 BCE) -- Chapter 6: The Catiline Conspiracy (63-62 BCE) -- Chapter 7: The Carrhae Disaster (53 BCE) -- Chapter 8: The First Triumvirate: Julius Caesar, Pompey the Great and Marcus Licinius Crassus (59-53 BCE) -- Chapter 9: Caesar's Gallic Wars (58-50 BCE) -- Chapter 10: Caesar's Civil War (49-45 BCE) -- Chapter 11: Power Politics and Assassination (44-33 BCE) -- Chapter 12: The Second Triumvirate: Octavian, Mark Antony and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (43-33 BCE) -- Chapter 13: Actium and Empire -- Chapter 14: The Cleopatra Effect -- Chapter 15: The Social and Literary Impact.

Call Number

JFE 19-6055

ISBN

• 1526710099
• 9781526710093

OCLC

1041532673

Author

Chrystal, Paul, author.

Title

Rome : Republic into Empire : the civil wars of the first centry BCE / Paul Chrystal.

Publisher

Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword Military, an imprint of Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 2019.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references, webology and index.

Chronological Term

265-30 B.C.

Research Call Number

JFE 19-6055