Rome and the Mediterranean to 133 B.C. (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521234481)

Volume VIII covers the period from immediately before the Second Punic War to 133 B.C., the time when Rome acquired effective political mastery of the Mediterranean lands. From the Carthaginians in Spain, the Second Punic War, and the first Roman involvement across the Adriatic, the advance of Roman power is traced through the conquests in Cisalpine Gaul, Spain and Africa in the west and through the conflicts in the east with Macedonia, the Seleucid empire, and finally the Greeks. Interspersed with these themes are chapters on the Seleucids and their rivals, the Greeks of Bactria and India, the internal political life of Rome, and developments in Rome's relationships with her allies and neighbors in Italy. Two concluding chapters explore the interactions, both intellectual and material, between the Roman and Italian tradition and the Greek world.

Author: A. E. Astin
ISBN-10: 0521234484
ISBN-13: 9780521234481
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/23/1990
Pages: 625
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.26lbs
Size: 9.32h x 6.26w x 1.51d