Rome and its Empire, AD 193-284 (Debates and Documents in Ancient History) - Softcover

Hekster, Olivier

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0748623043 ISBN 13: 9780748623044

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2008

Synopsis

This was a time of civil war, anarchy, intrigue, and assassination.Between 193 and 284 the Roman Empire knew more than twenty-five emperors, and an equal number of usurpers. All of them had some measure of success, several of them often ruling different parts of the Empire at the same time. Rome's traditional political institutions slid into vacuity and armies became the Empire's most powerful institutions, proclaiming their own imperial champions and deposing those they held to be incompetent.Yet despite widespread contemporary dismay at such weak government this period was also one in which the boundaries of the Empire remained fairly stable; the rights and privileges of Roman citizenship were extended equally to all free citizens of the Empire; in several regions the economy remained robust in the face of rampant inflation; and literary culture, philosophy, and legal theory flourished. Historians have been discussing how and why this could have been for centuries. Olivier Hekster takes you to th

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About the Author:

Olivier Hekster is Professor in Ancient History at the Radboud University, Nijmegen

About this edition

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0748623043
• ISBN 13: 9780748623044
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208