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Informationen zum Autor Guy Bradley is Professor of Ancient History at Cardiff University. Klappentext A new view of early Rome as a mobile society within a Mediterranean environmentIn the first few centuries of its existence, Rome developed from a minor settlement on the Tiber into the most powerful city-state in Italy.Guy Bradley examines the reasons for Rome's emergence and success within a highly competitive Italian environment, and how much it owed to its neighbours. He explains how many of Rome's key characteristics, such as its powerful ruling elite, its stable political institutions, its openness to outsiders, and its intensely militaristic society, were shaped by their origins in the monarchy and early Republic.Key Features:. Covers the rise of Rome from small scale community to supremacy in central Italy. Uses the latest archaeological evidence to demonstrate the sophisticated and cosmopolitan nature of early Rome. Analyses the origins of Rome's Republican form of government and of its aggressive drive to conquer.Guy Bradley is Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at Cardiff University Zusammenfassung This book is about the formative period of the Roman state. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface and acknowledgementsAbbreviationsSources and ApproachesWestern Italy from the Bronze Age to the Orientalising period Myths and legends of the foundation of RomeKingshipUrbanism and city foundationEconomy and society in archaic Rome and central Italy Rome in the early RepublicRoman foreign relations in sixth, fifth and fourth centuries BC Rome and Italy 338 - 290 BC: conquest and accommodation Rome around 300 BC List of mapsList of illustrations
