The End of the Roman Republic, 146 to 44 BC : Conquest and Crisis
"By 146, Rome had established itself as the leading Mediterranean power. Over the next century, it consolidated its power into an immense territorial empire. At the same time, the internal balance of power shifted dramatically, as a narrow ruling elite was challenged first by the rest of Italy, and then by military commanders, a process which culminated in the civil war between Pompey and Caesar and the re-establishment of Monarchy. Catherine Steel tells the history of this crucial and turbulent century, focussing on the issues of freedom, honour, power, greed and ambition, and the cherished but abused institutions of the Republic which were central to events then and which have preoccupied historians ever since"--Back cover
Print Book,English, 2013
Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2013
History
284 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
9780748619443, 9780748619450, 0748619445, 0748619453
821697167
The crises of the later second century BC
Domestic politics: violence and its accommodation
Imperial power: failure and control
The social war, civil war and the imposition of a new order
The limits of autocracy
The end of the Republic, 70-44 BC
Imperial expansion: novelty and success
Elite competition, popular discontent and the failure of collective government