By Thomas R. Martin
ISBN-10: 0300160046
ISBN-13: 9780300160048
ISBN-10: 0300198310
ISBN-13: 9780300198317
With commanding ability, Thomas R. Martin tells the impressive and dramatic tale of ways a tiny, bad, and threatened cost became, in the course of its top, the dominant energy within the Mediterranean international for 5 hundred years. Encompassing the interval from Rome's founding within the 8th century B.C. via Justinian's rule within the 6th century A.D., he deals a particular standpoint at the Romans and their civilization by way of applying basic Roman values as a lens wherein to view either their upward push and impressive fall.
Interweaving social, political, non secular, and cultural heritage, Martin translates the successes and screw ups of the Romans in conflict, political association, quest for private prestige, and within the integration of spiritual ideals and practices with executive. He makes a speciality of the relevant position of social and ethical values in choosing person behavior in addition to judgements of kingdom, from monarchy to republic to empire. Striving to reconstruct old historical past from the floor up, he comprises widespread references to historic texts and authors, encouraging readers to come back to the first resources. finished, concise, and available, this masterful account offers a distinct window into Rome and its altering fortune.
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