Rome's revolution death of the republic and birth of the empire
"On March 15th, 44 BC a group of senators stabbed Julius Caesar, the dictator of Rome. By his death, they hoped to restore Rome's Republic. Instead, they unleashed a revolution. By December of that year, Rome was plunged into a violent civil war. Three men--Mark Antony, Lepidus, and Octavi...
| Main Author: | Alston, Richard, 1965- |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2015]
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| Series: |
Ancient warfare and civilization.
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Table of Contents:
- The historian's problem: the Augustan Paradox
- Death of a dictator
- The crisis of the republic
- Caesar and Pompey
- Mutina: the last battle of the republic
- A victory lost: the defeat of the senate
- The revolution begins
- Death in Rome
- The triumvirs' victory
- The soldiers' peace
- The triumvirs' wars
- Antony and Cleopatra: love and its enemies
- The invention of Augustus
- The Augustan republic
- Anarchy and power
- The Augustan order
- The imperial monarchy
- Death of an emperor
- Timeline
- Cast of characters
- Bibliography.