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    Ancient Rome

    Ancient Rome

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    by William E. Dunstan


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      ISBN-13: 9780742568341
    • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
    • Publication date: 11/16/2010
    • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
    • Format: eBook
    • Pages: 632
    • File size: 19 MB
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    • Age Range: 18Years

    William E. Dunstan is a visiting scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and teaches at North Carolina State University.

    Table of Contents

    Chapter 1: Early Italy
    Chapter 2: Origins of Rome
    Chapter 3: The Young Republic
    Chapter 4: Roman Conquest of Italy
    Chapter 5: Duel with Carthage
    Chapter 6: Roman Conquest of the Mediterranean World
    Chapter 7: Impact of Overseas Conquests on the Senatorial Oligarchy
    Chapter 8: Impact of Overseas Conquests of the Economic and Social Organization of Italy
    Chapter 9: Greek Cultural Influences on Rome
    Chapter 10: Rival Conceptions of State and Society Plague Roman Politics: From the Gracchi to the Social War
    Chapter 11: Sulla
    Chapter 12: Pompey and Caesar
    Chapter 13: Antony and Octavian Wrestle for Empire: Final Dissolution of the Old Republican Order
    Chapter 14: Economic, Social, and Cultural Climate of the Late Republic
    Chapter 15: Augustus and the Founding of the Roman Empire
    Chapter 16: Augustan Social and Religious Policy
    Chapter 17: Augustan Art and Literature and the Augustan Legacy
    Chapter 18: From Tiberius to Nero: The Julio-Claudian Dynasty
    Chapter 19: From Vespasian to Domitian: The Flavian Dynasty
    Chapter 20: From Nerva to Marcus Aurelius: The Five Good Emperors
    Chapter 21: Government, Economy, and Society in the First and Second Centuries
    Chapter 22: Architecture and Sculpture in the First and Second Centuries
    Chapter 23: Literature in the First and Second Centuries
    Chapter 24: Commodus and the Severan Dynasty
    Chapter 25: Third-Century Imperial Crisis and First Phase of Recovery
    Chapter 26: Reorganization of Diocletian and Constantine
    Chapter 27: Last Years of the United Empire
    Chapter 28: Society and Culture in the Later Empire
    Chapter 29: Rise of Christianity
    Chapter 30: Christian Triumph and Controversy
    Chapter 31: Dismemberment of the Roman Empire in the West
    Epilogue: The Thousand-Year Survival of the Roman Empire in the East
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    Richard Cusimano

    Will Dunstan's texts are always a pleasure to read and his Ancient Rome is enjoyable as well. The book is a delightful balance between the coverage of topics required of a text and the human elements of history included in the narrative that make history fun to explore.

    William J. O'Neal

    An excellent text: thorough and readable, balanced and inclusive. The strength of the book lies in Professor Dunstan's adept mingling of political and military history with cultural, social, and literary histories of Rome. An undergraduate text cannot divorce one for the rest if students are to gain a through understanding of the Roman world.

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    Ancient Rome masterfully synthesizes the vast period from the second millennium BCE to the sixth century CE, carrying readers through the succession of fateful steps and agonizing crises that marked Roman evolution from an early village settlement to the capital of an extraordinary realm extending from northern Britain to the deserts of Arabia. A host of world-famous figures come to life in these pages, including Alexander the Great, Hannibal, Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, Augustus, Livia, Cicero, Nero, Hadrian, Diocletian, Constantine, Justinian, and Theodora. Filled with chilling narratives of violence, lust, and political expediency, this book not only describes empire-shaping political and military events but also treats social and cultural developments as integral to Roman history. William E. Dunstan highlights such key topics as the physical environment, women, law, the roles of slaves and freedmen, the plight of unprivileged free people, the composition and power of the ruling class, education, popular entertainment, food and clothing, marriage and divorce, sex, death and burial, finance and trade, scientific and medical achievements, religious institutions and practices, and artistic and literary masterpieces. All readers interested in the classical world will find this a fascinating and compelling history.

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    Richard Cusimano
    Will Dunstan's texts are always a pleasure to read and his Ancient Rome is enjoyable as well. The book is a delightful balance between the coverage of topics required of a text and the human elements of history included in the narrative that make history fun to explore.
    William J. O'Neal
    An excellent text: thorough and readable, balanced and inclusive. The strength of the book lies in Professor Dunstan's adept mingling of political and military history with cultural, social, and literary histories of Rome. An undergraduate text cannot divorce one for the rest if students are to gain a through understanding of the Roman world.
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