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Rome: Republic into Empire: The Civil Wars of the First Century BCE
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.
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Rome: Republic into Empire: The Civil Wars of the First Century BCE
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.
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Rome: Republic into Empire: The Civil Wars of the First Century BCE

Rome: Republic into Empire: The Civil Wars of the First Century BCE

by Paul Chrystal
Rome: Republic into Empire: The Civil Wars of the First Century BCE

Rome: Republic into Empire: The Civil Wars of the First Century BCE

by Paul Chrystal

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781526710093
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Publication date: 04/19/2019
Pages: 240
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Paul Chrystal is the author of some seventy books published over the last decade, including recent publications such as Wars and Battles of the Roman Republic, Roman Military Disasters and Women and War in Ancient Greece and Rome. He is a regular contributor to history magazines, local and national newspapers and has appeared on BBC Radio 4, BBC World Service and on BBC local radio throughout Yorkshire and in Teesside and Manchester. He writes extensively for several Pen & Sword military history series including ‘Cold War 1945–1991’, ‘A History of Terror’ and ‘Military Legacy’ (of British cities).

Table of Contents

By the same author ii

About the author v

List of Plates ix

Maps xiii

Introduction xix

Chapter 1 How did it come to this? 1

Chapter 2 The Social War (91-87 BCE) 11

Chapter 3 Sulla's First Civil War (88-87 BCE) 19

Chapter 4 Sulla's Second Civil War (82-81 BCE) 27

Chapter 5 The Spartacus Revolt (73-71 BCE) 41

Chapter 6 The Catiline Conspiracy (63-62 BCE) 51

Chapter 7 The Carrhae Disaster (53 BCE) 55

Chapter 8 The First Triumvirate: Julius Caesar, Pompey the Great and Marcus Licinius Crassus (59-53 BCE) 69

Chapter 9 Caesar's Gallic Wars (58-50 BCE) 75

Chapter 10 Caesar's Civil War (49-45 BCE) 93

Chapter 11 Power Politics and Assassination (44-43 BCE) 113

Chapter 12 The Second Triumvirate: Octavian, Mark Antony and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (43-33 BCE) 127

Chapter 13 Actium and Empire 141

Chapter 14 The Cleopatra Effect 147

Chapter 15 The Social and Literary Impact 151

Endnotes 183

Timeline 133-27 BCE 195

Bibliography 199

Primary Sources 227

Website? 229

Some Latin Terms 231

Appendix 1 Typical cursus honorum in the first century BCE 237

Appendix 2 Roman Assemblies 239

Index 241

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