The Defeat Of Rome

Author : Gareth C. Sampson
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781844686346

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Defeat of Rome in the East by Gareth C. Sampson Pdf

“Not just worthwhile for its analysis of the battle, but also for its coverage on Marcus Licinius Crassus’ long career and the rise of the Parthian Empire.” —Medieval Warfare Magazine In 53BC the Proconsul Marcus Crassus and 36,000 of his legionaries were crushed by the Parthians at Carrhae in what is now eastern Turkey. Crassus’ defeat and death and the 20,000 casualties his army suffered were an extraordinary disaster for Rome. The event intensified the bitter, destructive struggle for power in the Roman republic, curtailed the empire’s eastward expansion and had a lasting impact on the history of the Mediterranean and the Middle East. It was also the first clash between two of the greatest civilizations of the ancient world. Yet this critical episode has often been neglected by writers on the period who have concentrated on the civil war between Pompey and Caesar. Gareth Sampson, in this challenging and original study, reconstructs the Carrhae campaign in fine detail, reconsiders the policy of imperial expansion and gives a fascinating insight into the opponents the Romans confronted in the East—the Parthians. “The book is very well written and tightly referenced . . . Recommended, especially for those who only remember Crassus as the guy who was played by Laurence Olivier in Spartacus.” —Slingshot

Author : Gareth C. Sampson
Publisher : Pen & Sword Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Carrhae, Battle of, Turkey, 53 B.C.
ISBN : 147382804X

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The Defeat of Rome by Gareth C. Sampson Pdf

"First published in Great Britain in 2008 and reprinted ... in 2015"--Title page verso.

Author : Adrian Murdoch
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752494555

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Rome's Greatest Defeat by Adrian Murdoch Pdf

In AD 9 half of Rome's Western army was ambushed in a German forest and annihilated. Three legions, three cavalry units and six auxiliary regiments - some 25,000 men - were wiped out. It dealt a body blow to the empire's imperial pretensions and was Rome's greatest defeat. No other battle stopped the Roman empire dead in its tracks. Although one of the most significant and dramatic battles in European history, this is also one which has been largely overlooked. Drawing on primary sources and a vast wealth of new archaeological evidence, Adrian Murdoch brings to life the battle itself, the historical background and the effects of the Roman defeat as well as exploring the personalities of those who took part.

Author : Gareth C. Sampson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131790128

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The Defeat of Rome by Gareth C. Sampson Pdf

In 53BC the Proconsul Marcus Crassus and 36,000 of his legionaries were crushed by the Parthians at Carrhae in what is now eastern Turkey. Crassus' defeat and death and the 20,000 casualties his army suffered were an extraordinary disaster for Rome. The event intensified the bitter, destructive struggle for power in the Roman republic, curtailed the empire's eastward expansion and had a lasting impact on the history of the Mediterranean and the Middle East. It was also the first clash between two of the greatest civilizations of the ancient world. Yet this critical episode has often been neglected by writers on the period who have concentrated on the civil war between Pompey and Caesar. Gareth Sampson, in this challenging and original study, reconstructs the Carrhae campaign in fine detail, reconsiders the policy of imperial expansion and gives a fascinating insight into the opponents the Romans confronted in the East - the Parthians. AUTHOR After a successful career in corporate finance, Dr Gareth Sampson returned to the study of ancient Rome and gained his PhD from the University of Manchester, where he currently teaches ancient history. He has made a detailed study of early Roman political history and in particular the political office of the tribunate of the plebs. He is currently engaged in a study of the power struggles and the civil warfare of the late Republic and its expansionist policies in the East SALES Graphic account of the Parthian victory over Rome at Carrhae Penetrating study of the clash between two of the great civilizations of the ancient world Reconsiders the career of Marcus Licinius Crassus and his military reputation

Author : Peter Heather
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 605 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195325416

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The Fall of the Roman Empire by Peter Heather Pdf

Shows how Europe's barbarians, strengthened by centuries of contact with Rome on many levels, turned into an enemy capable of overturning and dismantling the mighty Empire.

Author : Edward Gibbon
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1347421882

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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume 8 by Edward Gibbon Pdf

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Author : Arther Ferrill
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 0500274959

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The Fall of the Roman Empire by Arther Ferrill Pdf

What caused the fall of Rome? Since Gibbon's day scholars have hotly debated the question and come up with the answers ranging from blood poisoning to immorality. In recent years, however, the most likely explanation has been neglected: was it not above all else a military collapse? Professor Ferrill believes it was, and puts forth his case in this provocative book.

Author : Jessica Homan Clark
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199336548

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Triumph in Defeat by Jessica Homan Clark Pdf

Although a great deal of historical work has been done in the past decade on Roman triumphs, defeats and their place in Roman culture have been relatively neglected. Why should we investigate the defeats of a society that almost never lost a war? In Triumph in Defeat, Jessica H. Clark answers this question by showing what responses to defeat can tell us about the Roman definition of victory. First opening with a general discussion of defeat and commemoration at Rome and then following the Second Punic War from its commencement to its afterlife in Roman historical memory through the second century BCE, culminating in the career of Gaius Marius, Clark examines both the successful production of victory narratives within the Senate and the gradual breakdown of those narratives. The result sheds light on the wars of the Republic, the Romans who wrote about these wars, and the ways in which both the events and their telling informed the political landscape of the Roman state. Triumph in Defeat not only fills a major gap in the study of Roman military, political, and cultural life, but also contributes to a more nuanced picture of Roman society, one that acknowledges the extent to which political discourse shaped Rome's status as a world power. Clark's work shows how defeat shaped the society whose massive reputation was-and still often is-built on its successes.

Author : Edward J. Watts
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197691953

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The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome by Edward J. Watts Pdf

The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome tells the story of 2200 years of the use and misuse of the idea of Roman decline by ambitious politicians, authors, and autocrats as well as the people scapegoated and victimized in the name of Roman renewal. It focuses on the long history of a way of describing change that might seem innocuous, but which has cost countless people their lives, liberty, or property across two millennia.

Author : Bryan Ward-Perkins
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191622366

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The Fall of Rome by Bryan Ward-Perkins Pdf

Why did Rome fall? Vicious barbarian invasions during the fifth century resulted in the cataclysmic end of the world's most powerful civilization, and a 'dark age' for its conquered peoples. Or did it? The dominant view of this period today is that the 'fall of Rome' was a largely peaceful transition to Germanic rule, and the start of a positive cultural transformation. Bryan Ward-Perkins encourages every reader to think again by reclaiming the drama and violence of the last days of the Roman world, and reminding us of the very real horrors of barbarian occupation. Attacking new sources with relish and making use of a range of contemporary archaeological evidence, he looks at both the wider explanations for the disintegration of the Roman world and also the consequences for the lives of everyday Romans, in a world of economic collapse, marauding barbarians, and the rise of a new religious orthodoxy. He also looks at how and why successive generations have understood this period differently, and why the story is still so significant today.

Author : Kyle Harper
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400888917

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The Fate of Rome by Kyle Harper Pdf

How devastating viruses, pandemics, and other natural catastrophes swept through the far-flung Roman Empire and helped to bring down one of the mightiest civilizations of the ancient world Here is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of human history: the fall of the Roman Empire. The Fate of Rome is the first book to examine the catastrophic role that climate change and infectious diseases played in the collapse of Rome’s power—a story of nature’s triumph over human ambition. Interweaving a grand historical narrative with cutting-edge climate science and genetic discoveries, Kyle Harper traces how the fate of Rome was decided not just by emperors, soldiers, and barbarians but also by volcanic eruptions, solar cycles, climate instability, and devastating viruses and bacteria. He takes readers from Rome’s pinnacle in the second century, when the empire seemed an invincible superpower, to its unraveling by the seventh century, when Rome was politically fragmented and materially depleted. Harper describes how the Romans were resilient in the face of enormous environmental stress, until the besieged empire could no longer withstand the combined challenges of a “little ice age” and recurrent outbreaks of bubonic plague. A poignant reflection on humanity’s intimate relationship with the environment, The Fate of Rome provides a sweeping account of how one of history’s greatest civilizations encountered and endured, yet ultimately succumbed to the cumulative burden of nature’s violence. The example of Rome is a timely reminder that climate change and germ evolution have shaped the world we inhabit—in ways that are surprising and profound.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Rome
ISBN : 0500250952

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The Fall of the Roman Empire by Anonim Pdf

Author : Adrian Keith Goldsworthy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0300164262

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How Rome Fell by Adrian Keith Goldsworthy Pdf

By the end of the fifth century, Roman rule had vanished in western Europe and much of northern Africa. Applying the scholarship, perspective, and narrative skill that defined his monumental "Caesar," Goldworthy explores how Rome fell.

Author : Alessandro Barbero
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Adrianople, Battle of, Edirne, Turkey, 378
ISBN : 1843545942

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The Day of the Barbarians by Alessandro Barbero Pdf

On August 9, ad 378, outside Adrianople in the Roman province of Thrace, the Roman Empire began to fall. Two years earlier, an unexpected flood of refugees from the tribe known as the Goths had arrived at the Empire's eastern border, seeking admittance. In the David-and-Goliath struggle that ensued, the barbarians eventually inflicted upon the Roman Army the most disastrous defeat they had suffered since Hannibal's victory over them almost 600 years earlier. Although the Empire did not actually fall for another century, this battle signalled nothing less than the end of the ancient world and the opening of the Middle Ages. Barbero vividly recreates the events leading up to the last epic battle of the ancient world, and a significant turning point in world history. The Day of the Barbarians is military history at its gripping best.

Author : Guy de La Bédoyère
Publisher : Abacus
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0349143919

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Gladius by Guy de La Bédoyère Pdf