Synopses & Reviews
Review
This concise but illuminating history of a government that provided peace and prosperity longer than any other has no equal. Antioch Review
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When a modest, single volume on the Roman Empire proves informative, provocative, and exciting, the reader gladly acknowledges an exceptional author. Professor Colin Wells is expert in the various aspects of Roman history, he reflects on issues independently and creatively, and he writes elegantly, and sometimes brilliantly. Eleanor G. Huzar
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This is historical writing with a bite usually missing in fast surveys...Novices and advanced students of Roman history alike will be stimulated by this book to think deeply on a grand scale about matters of great importance in ancient history. Classical Outlook
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An admirable volume. Thomas R. Martin - History Book Club Review
Synopsis
This sweeping history of the Roman Empire from 44 B.C. to A.D. 235 has three purposes: to describe what was happening in the central administration and in the entourage of the emperor; to indicate how life went on in Italy and the provinces, in the towns, in the countryside, and in the army camps; and to show how these two different worlds impinged on each other. Colin Wells's vivid account is now available in an up-to-date second edition.
About the Author
Colin Wellsis Professor of Classical Studies, <>Trinity University.
Table of Contents
Preface to the Second Edition
List of Maps and Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
I. The New Order
II. The Sources
III. The Work of Augustus
IV. Italy under Augustus: the Social and Intellectual Climate
V. The Consolidation of the Principate
VI. The Army and the Provinces in the First Century AD
VII. 'Emperors Made Elsewhere than at Rome': Galba to Trajan
VIII. The State of Italy from Petronius to Pliny
IX. The Orderly Government of the Empire: Hadrian to Marcus Aurelius
X.'The Immeasurable Majesty of the Roman Peace'
XI. An Age of Transition: Commodus to Maximinus the Thracian
Maps Lists of dates:
Reigns of Roman Emperors, Augustus to Diocletian
Greek and Latin Authors Mentioned in this Book
Further Reading
Index of Citations
General Index