Emperors of Rome

David Potter

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Formato:
Hardback
Editore:
Quercus Publishing Plc
Anno di pubblicazione
2012
Lingua:
Inglese
Pagine:
256
Dimensioni:
248 X 192
Codice EAN:
9780857386656
Generi:
Biographies, Historical, Political & Military History, Ancient History & Civilisation History, Europe
Altre informazioni:
150 colour images
Prezzo di copertina:
£ 14,99

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In 27 BC Octavian was proclaimed emperor by the Roman Senate and given the title 'Augustus'. He ruled over an Empire that embraced the territories of 25 some modern countries and had more than 50 million subjects. Its provinces stretched from Hadrian's Wall in the North to Egypt in the South, and from Portugal in the West to Syria in the East. Emperors of Rome charts the 500 years that followed the triumph of Augustus, during which Rome reached heights of economic prosperity and cultural achievement, but also plumbed depths of anarchy, cruelty and chaos. It profiles the greatest and most notorious of the emperors - the autocratic Augustus, the feeble Claudius, the vicious Nero, the beneficent Marcus Aurelius, the maniac Commodus. But these colourful accounts of the Emperors are just part of a wider narrative charting the vicissitudes and ultimate decline of the Roman polity. All of the key events of Roman imperial history are described here, from the Golden Age of Augustus to the destruction of Pompeii, from the reorganization of the Empire under Diocletian in 284 to the division of the Empire into Eastern and Western halves in 395, and from Constantine's Edict of Milan of 313 to the sack of Rome by the Visigoths in 410.

Indice

Prologue: Being Caesar. GREAT CAESAR'S GHOST: A Succession of Strongmen - Rome from Gaius Marius to Caesar, 107-44 BC; A Time of Turmoil - Octavian and Antony, 44-30 BC; Foundations of the Empire - The House of Augustus, 29 BC-AD 14; Eccentric Stability - Emperors from Tiberius to Nero, AD 14-68. CAESARS AND THEIR SUBJECTS: New Dynasties - From the Flavians to the Antoines, AD 68-180; Running the Empire - Emperors and Administrators, AD 68-180; Civic Pride - Caesars and their Cities, AD 68-180; The Imperial Melting Pot - Roman Culture, AD 68-180. REINVENTING CAESAR: The Slippery Slope - The Beginnings of Rome's Decline, AD 180-211; Inadequates and Misfits - Emperors of the Early Third Century, AD 211-238; Anarchy and Disorder - The Crisis of the Third Century, AD 239-270; Steadying the Ship of State - Restoration of the Imperial Office, AD 270-305; Beginnings of the Christian Empire - The Reign of Constantine, AD 305-337. LOSING CAESAR: Carving Up Empires - From Constantine's Sons to Valens, AD 337-375; Enemies at the Gate - The Barbarian Invasions, AD 376-411; Final Decline and Fall - The Collapse of the Western Empire, AD 411-476. Epilogue: Dido's Revenge. Glossary. Index. Further reading. Acknowledgments and picture credits.