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  title info:
    title: Rome victorious
    sub title: the irresistible rise of the Roman Empire
  name:
    name part: Hoyos, B. D. (B. Dexter)
    name part: 1944-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 256 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.
  abstract: Rome, Urbs Roma, city of patricians and plebeians, emperors and gladiators, slaves and concubines, was the epicenter of a far-flung imperium whose cultural legacy is incalculable. How a tiny settlement, founded by desperate adventurers beside the banks of the River Tiber, came to rule vast tracts of territory across the face of the known world is one of the more improbable stories of antiquity. The epic scale of the Colosseum, majestically columned temples, formidable legionaries marching in burnished steel breastplates and capricious Caesars clad in purple robes who thought themselves gods. All these images speak of a grandeur that continues to be associated with this most celebrated of ancient capitals. The glory of Rome is further underlined by enduring monuments like Hadrian's Wall, holding the line as it did against ferocious Pictish barbarians thought to be from Hyperborea, the mythic Land Beyond the North Wind. This book vividly recounts the rags-to-riches story of Rome's unlikely triumph.
  table of contents: Rome before empire: hegemony over Italy -- Mediterranean hegemony and the first provinces -- The provinces of the Republic -- The political impoverishment of the imperial republic -- Augustus: the greatest imperialist -- Imperial takings and leavings, AD -- The new Romans -- Governing and misgoverning -- Judging the empire: Romans and others -- Resistance -- How Roman was the Roman Empire?.
  note: Dexter Hoyos.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
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  subject:
    geographic: Rome
    topic: History
  classification: DG209 .H725 2019
  classification: 937
  identifier: 9781780762746
  identifier: 1780762747
  identifier: 2018048042
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 181021
    record change date: 20190718162838.0
    record identifier: in00004058305