The Cambridge Ancient History

Volume IX of the second edition of The Cambridge Ancient History has for its main theme the process commonly known as the 'Fall of the Roman Republic'.

J. A. Crook (Edited by), Andrew Lintott (Edited by), Elizabeth Rawson (Edited by)

9780521256032, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 24 February 1994

945 pages, 2 b/w illus. 14 maps 1 table
32 x 18.4 x 7.6 cm, 1.458 kg

"The new CAH IX is a welcome achievement, a readable and reliable political narrative with significant thematic contributions that mark major progress in sophistication and incisiveness of thought." The Classical Journal

Volume IX of the second edition of The Cambridge Ancient History has for its main theme the process commonly known as the 'Fall of the Roman Republic'. Chapters 1-12 supply a narrative of the period from 133 BC to the death of Cicero in 43 BC, with a prelude analysing the situation and problems of the Republic from the turning-point year 146 BC. Chapters 13-19 offer analysis of aspects of Roman society, institutions, and ideas during the period. The chapters treat public and private law, the beginnings of imperial administration, the economy of Rome and Italy, and the growth of the city of Rome, and finally intellectual life and religion. The portrait is of a society not in decay or decline but, rather, outstripping its strength and attracting the administrations of men who rescued it at the price of transforming it politically.

List of maps
List of text figures
Preface
1. The crisis of the Republic: sources and source-problems
2. The Roman empire and its problems in the late second century
3. Political history, 146–95 BC
4. Rome and Italy: the Social War
5. Mithridates
6. Sulla
7. The rise of Pompey
8a. Lucullus, Pompey and the East
8b. The Jews under Hasmonean rule
8c. Egypt, 146–31 BC
9. The Senate and the populares, 69–60 BC
10. Caesar, Pompey and Rome, 59–50 BC
11. Caesar: civil war and dictatorship
12. The aftermath of the Ides
13. The constitution and public criminal law
14. The development of Roman private law
15. The administration of the empire
16. Economy and society, 133–43 BC
17. The city of Rome and the plebs urbana in the late Republic
18. The intellectual developments of the Ciceronian age
19. Religion
Epilogue
Stemmata
Chronological table.

Subject Areas: General & world history [HBG]