Roman History. In 4 Volumes
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Roman History. In 4 Volumes
149.99 €
"Roman History" - a truly titanic work Theodor Mommsen (1817 - 1903), who became the first German winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1902) and was awarded the assessment of "the greatest existing master of historical literature" largely due to this work.
An outstanding antiquarian, philologist and traveler, Mommsen relied on a huge factual material, collected and systematized by him after many years of scientific expeditions in Italy. The result was the creation of the so-called "Corpus of Latin inscriptions", including 180 thousand different written sources, which formed the basis of the "Roman History". The events of its first volume cover a vast period of antiquity: from the reign of the semi-legendary seven Roman kings and the unification of Italy under the Senate to the Third Battle of Pydna (168 BC), which put an end to the Macedonian kingdom and led to the final establishment of democracy in the Hellenic lands. The events of her second volume extend from the conquest of the Hellenistic East and the beginning of the age of reform to the dictatorship of Lucius Cornelius Sulla and the profound crisis of the republican form of government that heralded the transition to the future Roman Empire. The events of its third volume begin with the political instability following the death of the dictator Sulla (78 B.C.) and continue until the last civil war of the Republic (49-45 B.C.), bringing to the forefront of the narrative the figure of Gaius Julius Caesar, whom the author considered a hero not only of Roman but of world history. The concluding fifth volume gives a detailed characterization of the provinces of the empire, which forever remained one of the most grandiose state formations in the world. Its power at its height extended over a total area of 6.51 million square kilometers. Roman law triumphed wherever the caligi of the Roman legionary trampled the earth: from silver-rich Lusitania in the West to sparsely populated, deserted Syria in the East, from fertile Cyrenaica in the South to poor Britain in the North. The book describes in detail the government, military, diplomacy, economy and culture of Rome, as well as its opponents and allies. The proposed edition can serve as a guide for the study of the history of the largest ancient civilization, acting as the foundation of modern Western society. For students and teachers of history, cultural studies, political science, and all those interested in the problems of world history.
An outstanding antiquarian, philologist and traveler, Mommsen relied on a huge factual material, collected and systematized by him after many years of scientific expeditions in Italy. The result was the creation of the so-called "Corpus of Latin inscriptions", including 180 thousand different written sources, which formed the basis of the "Roman History". The events of its first volume cover a vast period of antiquity: from the reign of the semi-legendary seven Roman kings and the unification of Italy under the Senate to the Third Battle of Pydna (168 BC), which put an end to the Macedonian kingdom and led to the final establishment of democracy in the Hellenic lands. The events of her second volume extend from the conquest of the Hellenistic East and the beginning of the age of reform to the dictatorship of Lucius Cornelius Sulla and the profound crisis of the republican form of government that heralded the transition to the future Roman Empire. The events of its third volume begin with the political instability following the death of the dictator Sulla (78 B.C.) and continue until the last civil war of the Republic (49-45 B.C.), bringing to the forefront of the narrative the figure of Gaius Julius Caesar, whom the author considered a hero not only of Roman but of world history. The concluding fifth volume gives a detailed characterization of the provinces of the empire, which forever remained one of the most grandiose state formations in the world. Its power at its height extended over a total area of 6.51 million square kilometers. Roman law triumphed wherever the caligi of the Roman legionary trampled the earth: from silver-rich Lusitania in the West to sparsely populated, deserted Syria in the East, from fertile Cyrenaica in the South to poor Britain in the North. The book describes in detail the government, military, diplomacy, economy and culture of Rome, as well as its opponents and allies. The proposed edition can serve as a guide for the study of the history of the largest ancient civilization, acting as the foundation of modern Western society. For students and teachers of history, cultural studies, political science, and all those interested in the problems of world history.
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