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Fear, greed and glory: the causes of Roman war-making in the middle Republic
| Content Provider | Scilit |
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| Author | Rich, John |
| Copyright Year | 2020 |
| Description | Down to the middle of the fourth century Rome was a power of merely local significance. The Romans had fought a great many wars against their neighbours, but for most of their history they had been merely one of the more prominent of the cities in the plain of Latium. Quite suddenly, from about $343,^{1}$ all this changed, and in a period of just over seventy years the Romans fought their way to a position of mastery over the whole of Italy south of the Po valley. This success was followed by great wars, first against Carthage, and then against various Hellenistic kings. From all of these the Romans emerged victorious, and by the middle of the second century, contemporaries like Polybius recognized them as the undisputed masters of the Mediterranean world. They now ruled a number of overseas territories directly, as provinces, and elsewhere they exercised an informal hegemony. Over the next two centuries, down to the reign of Augustus, the first emperor, the Romans continued on the same path of warfare and expansion. In the late Republic, the drive to expansion was largely fuelled by the ambitions of powerful individuals, like Pompey and Caesar. But down to the outbreak of the Social War, 39in 91, the political system remained relatively stable. Why did the Romans fight so many wars, and expand their power so widely? Book Name: War and Society in the Roman World |
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| Ending Page | 68 |
| Page Count | 31 |
| Starting Page | 38 |
| DOI | 10.1201/9781003071341-3 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2020-07-08 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: War and Society in the Roman World Classics Republic Century Middle Romans Had Fought |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
