From Asculum to Actium by Edward Bispham
Rome's once independent Italian allies became communities of a new Roman territorial state after the Social War of 91-87 BC. Edward Bispham examines how the transition from independence to subordination was managed, and how, between the opposing tensions of local particularism, competing traditions and identities, aspirations for integration, cultural change, and indifference from Roman central authorities, something new and dynamic appeared in the jaded world of the late Republic. Bispham charts the successes and failures of the attempts to make a new political community (Roman Italy), and new Roman citizens scattered across the peninsula - a dramatic and important story in that, while Italy was being built, Rome was falling apart; and while the Roman Republic fell, the Italian municipal system endured, and made possible the government, and even the survival, of the Roman empire in the West.
This is a work of immense learning and insight * Les Etudes Classiques *
This is a book that is long awaited * Alison ECooley *
This is a book that is long awaited * Alison ECooley *
Edward Bispham is Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History, Brasenose College, Oxford, and Lecturer in Ancient History, St Anne's College Oxford.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780199231843 |
| ISBN 10 | 0199231842 |
| Title | From Asculum to Actium |
| Author | Edward Bispham |
| Series | Oxford Classical Monographs |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2007-12-06 |
| Number of pages | 584 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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