Taken at the Flood : the Roman Conquest of Greece / Robin Waterfield
Material type: TextPublisher 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 WATItem type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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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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