| Description |
x, 243 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
Agora editions
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| Contents |
Beginnings of Rome; its wars -- The art of war among the Romans -- How the Romans were able to expand -- The Gauls; Pyrrhus; comparison of Carthage and Rome; Hannibal's war -- The condition of Greece, Macedonia, Syria, and Egypt after the reduction of the Carthaginians -- The conduct the Romans pursued to subjugate all peoples -- How Mithridates was able to resist them -- The dissensions that always existed in the city -- Two causes of Rome's ruin -- The corruption of the Romans -- Sulla; Pompey and Caesar -- The condition of Rome after Caesar's death -- Augustus -- Tiberius -- The emperors from Caius Caligula to Antoninus -- The condition of the empire, from Antoninus to Probus -- Change in the state -- New maxims adopted by the Romans -- Attila's greatness; cause of the settlement of the Barbarians; reasons why the Western empire was the first to fall -- Justinian's conquest; his government -- Disorders of the Eastern empire -- Weakness of the Eastern empire -- Reason for the duration of the Eastern empire; its destruction. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliographical footnotes. |
| Subject |
Rome -- History.
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| Added Author |
Lowenthal, David.
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| Added Title |
Considérations sur les causes de la grandeur des Romains. English
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