The eternal decline and fall of Rome : the history of a dangerous idea / Edward J. Watts.
The eternal decline and fall of Rome : the history of a dangerous idea / Edward J. Watts.
The eternal decline and fall of Rome : the history of a dangerous idea / Edward J. Watts.
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New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]
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G 2021/1586
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English
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xi, 301 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introduction: A snapshot and a story -- Decline in the Roman Republic -- The republic of violence and the empire of peace -- Manufacturing the Golden Age of Trajan -- Renewal without decline : the Antonines and Severans -- Decline and false renewal : the third century crisis -- Decline, renewal, and...
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New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]
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New York (State)
Date Published
[2021]
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"The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea traces the development and use of the rhetoric of Roman decline and renewal across 2200 years. Beginning in the Roman Republic at the turn of the 2nd century BC and stretching to the uses of Roman decline in the present day, the book argues that the use of this common rhetoric f...
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The eternal decline and fall of Rome : the history of a dangerous idea / Edward J. Watts.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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©2021
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G 2021/1586
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74VKaazpwL7A
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0190076712
9780190076719
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937.0072
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991024420918402626
