The Roman revolution.
Gallimard| N° d'inventaire | 23545 |
| Format | 22 x 28 |
| Détails | 688 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2016 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782072697715 |
Since its publication in 1939, The Roman Revolution has been hailed as one of the most important works of Roman history since Mommsen. Ronald Syme traces the crisis of three-quarters of a century during which, from Caesar's consulship to the death of Augustus (60 BC - 14 AD), the Empire was built on the ruins of the Republic. This dramatic period of civil wars saw Pompey, Caesar, Antony, and Octavian clash for supreme power in a struggle that could only end in death without glory or triumph without pardon. But behind the calculations of the heroes, reconstructed here in their almost daily unfolding, it is the parties and groups, the social forces, and the politics of the great senatorial families that Ronald Syme brings to life with an intensity that makes this book a masterful study of political science. With the restoration of the shaken world, the Augustan order is being developed. The subjugation of this old "nobilitas" into a fallen generation, the promotion of a new class of high officials devoted to the princeps, the development of a monarchical order behind the republican facade, measures intended to found society on new moral and religious foundations, ideological reorganizations echoed by Virgil and Horace: this is the Empire.
Since its publication in 1939, The Roman Revolution has been hailed as one of the most important works of Roman history since Mommsen. Ronald Syme traces the crisis of three-quarters of a century during which, from Caesar's consulship to the death of Augustus (60 BC - 14 AD), the Empire was built on the ruins of the Republic. This dramatic period of civil wars saw Pompey, Caesar, Antony, and Octavian clash for supreme power in a struggle that could only end in death without glory or triumph without pardon. But behind the calculations of the heroes, reconstructed here in their almost daily unfolding, it is the parties and groups, the social forces, and the politics of the great senatorial families that Ronald Syme brings to life with an intensity that makes this book a masterful study of political science. With the restoration of the shaken world, the Augustan order is being developed. The subjugation of this old "nobilitas" into a fallen generation, the promotion of a new class of high officials devoted to the princeps, the development of a monarchical order behind the republican facade, measures intended to found society on new moral and religious foundations, ideological reorganizations echoed by Virgil and Horace: this is the Empire.