Taken at the Flood : the Roman Conquest of Greece / Robin Waterfield

By: Waterfield, RobinContributor(s): Waterfield, RobinMaterial type: TextTextPublisher number: :International Book Distributors | :Flat No 14, Prakash Apartment 5 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New DelhiSeries: Ancient warfare and civilizationPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 2014Description: xix, 287 pages 24cmISBN: 9780198767473Subject(s): History | History of ancient world (to ca. 499) | Europe -- Illyria | Griechenland | Rome -- History -- Republic, 265-30 B.CDDC classification: 939.87 WAT
Contents:
Prelude: Clouds in the West -- Rome Turns East -- The Illyrian Wars -- Barbarians, Go Home! -- King Philip of Macedon -- The Freedom of the Greeks -- The Road to Thermopylae -- The Periphery Expands -- Remote Control -- Perseus' Choice -- The End of Macedon -- Imperium Romanum -- The Greek World After Pydna -- Key Dates -- Glossary, Money, Names.
Summary: Is there anyone on earth who is so narrow-minded or uninquisitive that he could fail to want to know how and thanks to what kind of political system almost the entire known world was conquered and brought under a single empire in less than fifty-three years?"--Polybius, Histories. The 53-year period Polybius had in mind stretched from the start of the Second Punic War in 219 BCE until 167, when Rome overthrew the
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Prelude: Clouds in the West --
Rome Turns East --
The Illyrian Wars --
Barbarians, Go Home! --
King Philip of Macedon --
The Freedom of the Greeks --
The Road to Thermopylae --
The Periphery Expands --
Remote Control --
Perseus' Choice --
The End of Macedon --
Imperium Romanum --
The Greek World After Pydna --
Key Dates --
Glossary, Money, Names.

Is there anyone on earth who is so narrow-minded or uninquisitive that he could fail to want to know how and thanks to what kind of political system almost the entire known world was conquered and brought under a single empire in less than fifty-three years?"--Polybius, Histories. The 53-year period Polybius had in mind stretched from the start of the Second Punic War in 219 BCE until 167, when Rome overthrew the

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