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The Social History of Rome

Géza Alföldy
translated by David Braund and Frank Polluck

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Géza Alföldy provides a succinct chronological introduction to Roman social history from the time of Romulus and Remus to the "last Emperor," Romulus Augustulus. Expanding the focus of some approaches to this subject, Alföldy examines Rome's social structure against the broader and more familiar background of its political history.

This book treats such topics as the structure of archaic Roman society; social changes from the beginning of Roman expansion to the Second Punic War; slave uprisings and other conflicts in the society of the Late Republic; the social system of the early Empire; the...

Géza Alföldy provides a succinct chronological introduction to Roman social history from the time of Romulus and Remus to the "last Emperor," Romulus Augustulus. Expanding the focus of some approaches to this subject, Alföldy examines Rome's social structure against the broader and more familiar background of its political history.

This book treats such topics as the structure of archaic Roman society; social changes from the beginning of Roman expansion to the Second Punic War; slave uprisings and other conflicts in the society of the Late Republic; the social system of the early Empire; the crisis of the Roman Empire; and late Roman society to the fall of the Empire.

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Excellent discussions of the plebians and their struggle for political recoginiton, the nature of the aristrocracy, the nobles, the economy, the senatorial and equestrian orders with their ladders of promotion, the municipal aristocracy... [An] excellent introduction to the subject by a historian of international reputation.

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9
Pages
272
ISBN
9780801837012
Table of Contents

Preface to the English Edition
Preface to the First German Edition (1975)
Chapter 1. Early Roman Society
Chapetr 2. Roman Society from the Beginning of Expansion to the Second Punic War
Chapter 3. The

Preface to the English Edition
Preface to the First German Edition (1975)
Chapter 1. Early Roman Society
Chapetr 2. Roman Society from the Beginning of Expansion to the Second Punic War
Chapter 3. The Structural Change of the Second Century BC
Chapter 4. The Crisis of the Republic and Roman Society
Chapter 5. The Social System of the Early Empire
Chapter 6. The Crsis of the Roman Empire and Structural Change in Society
Chapter 7. Late ROman Society
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Géza Alföldy

Géza Alföldy is a professor of ancient history at the University of Heidelberg.