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Age of Conquests
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Angelos Chaniotis
Author_Michael Kulikowski
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From Alexander to Hadrian
Hans van Wees
Harvard
History
Imperial Tragedy
Imperial Triumph
Kathryn Lomas
Latin
Mary Beard
Michael Kulikowski
Paul Stephenson
Profile History of the Ancient World
Rise of Rome
SPQR
The Greeks
The Rise of Imperial Rome
The Roman Empire in the East
Product details
- ISBN 9781781256336
- Weight: 316g
- Dimensions: 128 x 196mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jul 2021
- Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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For centuries, Rome was one of the world's largest imperial powers, its influence spread across Europe, North Africa, and the Middle-East, its military force successfully fighting off attacks by the Parthians, Germans, Persians and Goths. Then came the definitive split, the Vandal sack of Rome, and the crumbling of the West from Empire into kingdoms first nominally under Imperial rule and then, one by one, beyond it.
Imperial Tragedy tells the story of Rome's gradual collapse. Full of palace intrigue, religious conflicts and military history, as well as details of the shifts in social, religious and political structures, Imperial Tragedy contests the idea that Rome fell due to external invasions. Instead, it focuses on how the choices and conditions of those living within the empire led to its fall. For it was not a single catastrophic moment that broke the Empire but a creeping process; by the time people understood that Rome had fallen, the west of the Empire had long since broken the Imperial yoke.
Michael Kulikowski is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of History and Classics at Penn State University, where his research and writing ranges widely across ancient and early medieval history. He is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books. His books include Rome's Gothic Wars, described by Bryn Mawr Classical Review as 'exceptional' and by Military History Review as 'breezy and animated, yet authoritative', and Imperial Triumph (Profile, 2016).
