Photographic Documentation: The Roman Empire. No. 8136. 2020-4.
CNRS| N° d'inventaire | 23181 |
| Format | 21 x 29.7 |
| Détails | 63 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2020 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782271133052 |
In the 1st century BC, Rome formed an empire spanning Western Europe and the Mediterranean. While maintaining republican appearances, Augustus founded a new political regime: the Principate. He thus adapted Roman institutions to the dimensions of the Empire. This key political moment opened a five-century period of territorial unity around the Mediterranean during which Greco-Roman civilization flourished. This special issue explores the Roman Empire in its diversity, its evolutions, and its structural elements of continuity. It offers an overview of this highly hierarchical society, based on slavery, but in which freedmen could rise to some of the highest positions in the state.
In the 1st century BC, Rome formed an empire spanning Western Europe and the Mediterranean. While maintaining republican appearances, Augustus founded a new political regime: the Principate. He thus adapted Roman institutions to the dimensions of the Empire. This key political moment opened a five-century period of territorial unity around the Mediterranean during which Greco-Roman civilization flourished. This special issue explores the Roman Empire in its diversity, its evolutions, and its structural elements of continuity. It offers an overview of this highly hierarchical society, based on slavery, but in which freedmen could rise to some of the highest positions in the state.