Early Rome to 290 BC : the beginnings of the city and the rise of the Republic /
In the first few centuries of its existence, Rome developed from a minor settlement on the Tiber into the most powerful-city state in Italy. This book examines the reasons for Rome's emergence and success within a highly competitive Italian environment, and how much it owed to its neighbors. It...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2020]
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| Series: | Edinburgh history of ancient Rome.
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| Summary: | In the first few centuries of its existence, Rome developed from a minor settlement on the Tiber into the most powerful-city state in Italy. This book examines the reasons for Rome's emergence and success within a highly competitive Italian environment, and how much it owed to its neighbors. It explains how many of Rome's key characteristics, such as its powerful ruling elite, its stable political institutions and its openness to outsiders and its intensely militaristic society, were shaped by their origins in the monarchy and early Republic. |
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| Physical Description: | xx, 412 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (page [370]-399) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780748621101 0748621105 9780748621095 0748621091 |