Acknowledgements
Preface
The Historian's Problem
Death of a Dictator
The Crisis of the Republic
Caesar and Pompey
Mutina: The Last Battle of the Republic
A Victory Lost: The Defeat of the Senate
The Revolution Begins
Death in Rome
The Revolution Complete: From Philippi to Perusia
The Triumviral Wars
Antony and Cleopatra: Love and its Enemies
The Invention of Augustus
The Augustan Republic
Anarchy and Power
The Imperial Order
The Conquest of the World
Buying Rome: Empire, Money, and Power in the Augustan Regime
Death of an Emperor
Epilogue: Tiberius the Emperor
Bibliography
Index
Richard Alston is Professor of Roman History at Royal Holloway, University of London, and the author or editor of over a dozen books on ancient Rome.
"... Alston provides a lively narrative of the course of Roman
history in the period. Particularly suitable for those only
passingly familiar with this era in Roman history" --A. A. Nofi,
NYMAS
"In Rome's Revolution, Richard Alston presents an excellent,
concise survey of the key period of Roman history from the fall of
the Republic to the rise of the Empire. He also reminds us that,
however much politics and oratory influenced these years, it was
violence that ultimately changed Rome." --Philip Freeman, author of
Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar
"A skillfully woven portrait of the establishment of the Roman
principate, dyed in much blood." --Tom Holland, author of Rubicon
and In the Shadow of the Sword
"With violence and bloodshed at its very heart, Rome's Revolution
will take readers out of their historical comfort zone. Richard
Alston sets out to elucidate the messy nature of Roman history and
to reject the utility of the concepts of consensus, settlements,
and so on that have dominated the study of ancient history for more
than a generation." --Ray Laurence, author (with Alex Butterworth)
of Pompeii: The Living City
"Relentlessly exposing the bloody ruins and mangled corpses beneath
the shining surface of order and peace restored after the age of
Rome's civil wars, Alston's compelling narrative of the violent
transition from Republic to Empire helps us understand a lesson
that matters to all ages-not least our own: that the benefits of
empire (whatever its nature) come at a tremendous price-a price
that is but insufficiently expressed by the much abused ideal that
we, like
the Romans, call liberty." --Kurt A. Raaflaub, editor of War and
Peace in the Ancient World
"...[an] impressive, original, and illuminating work... Highly
recommended." --CHOICE
"[A] vigorous, swift-paced account of events...[P]articularly
strong at describing the military campaigns leading to crucial
battles." -- History Today
"Alston carefully deconstructs the myths Romans held about their
own origins and political values, breaking down the narratives
about civilization and democracy to show the messy inner workings
of an ancient system built on hierarchy and violence...a strikingly
poignant examination of the dangers in self-aggrandizing myths of
national glory, and the ways in which efforts to return to a
non-existent past can push a state further from their supposed
values." --
Briedy Heing, The Daily Beast
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