|
" Taken at the Flood : "
Robin Waterfield
Document Type
|
:
|
BL
|
Record Number
|
:
|
653696
|
Doc. No
|
:
|
dltt
|
Main Entry
|
:
|
Waterfield, Robin,1952-
|
Title & Author
|
:
|
Taken at the Flood : : the Roman Conquest of Greece /\ Robin Waterfield
|
Edition Statement
|
:
|
First edition
|
Series Statement
|
:
|
Ancient warfare and civilization
|
Page. NO
|
:
|
xix, 287 pages ;; 24 cm
|
ISBN
|
:
|
9780199656462
|
|
:
|
: 0199656460
|
|
:
|
: 9780199916894
|
|
:
|
: 0199916896
|
Bibliographies/Indexes
|
:
|
Includes bibliographical references and index
|
Contents
|
:
|
Prelude: Clouds in the West -- Rome Turns East -- The Illyrian Wars -- Barbarians, Go Home! -- King Philip of Macedon -- The Freedom of the Greeks -- The Road to Thermopylae -- The Periphery Expands -- Remote Control -- Perseus' Choice -- The End of Macedon -- Imperium Romanum -- The Greek World After Pydna -- Key Dates -- Glossary, Money, Names
|
Abstract
|
:
|
In an absorbing account of a critical chapter in Rome's mastery of the Mediterranean, Robin Waterfield reveals the peculiar nature of Rome's eastern policy. For over seventy years, the Romans avoided annexation so that they could commit their military and financial resources to the fight against Carthage and elsewhere. Though ultimately a failure, this policy of indirect rule, punctuated by periodic brutal military interventions and intense diplomacy, worked well for several decades, until the Senate finally settled on more direct forms of control. Waterfield's fast-paced narrative focuses mainly on military and diplomatic maneuvers, but throughout he interweaves other topics and themes, such as the influence of Greek culture on Rome, the Roman aristocratic ethos, and the clash between the two best fighting machines the ancient world ever produced: the Macedonian phalanx and Roman legion
|
Subject
|
:
|
Illyrian wars
|
Subject
|
:
|
Rome (Empire), History, Republic, 265-30 B.C
|
Subject
|
:
|
Illyria, History
|
Dewey Classification
|
:
|
939./87
|
LC Classification
|
:
|
DG246.W37 2014
|
| |