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The Social History of Rome

Géza Alföldy author David Braund translator Frank Polluck translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press

Published:16th Mar '89

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This book treats such topics as the structure of archaic Roman society; social changes from the beginning of Roman expansion to the Second Punic War; slave uprisings and other conflicts in the society of the Late Republic; the social system of the early Empire; the crisis of the Roman Empire; and late Roman society to the fall of the Empire.

"Excellent discussions of the plebians and their struggle for political recoginiton, the nature of the aristrocracy, the nobles, the economy, the senatorial and equestrian orders with their ladders of promotion, the municipal aristocracy... [An] excellent introduction to the subject by a historian of international reputation. Classical World

ISBN: 9780801837012

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 340g

272 pages