Imperial Triumph (Ebook)
The Roman World from Hadrian to Constantine (AD 138–363)
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Two hundred years of Roman imperial politics and power brought to life in an action-packed narrative
Imperial Triumph presents the history of Rome at the height of its imperial power. Beginning with the reign of Hadrian in Rome and ending with the death of Julian the Apostate on campaign in Persia, it offers an intimate account of the twists and often deadly turns of imperial politics in which successive emperors rose and fell with sometimes bewildering rapidity. Yet, despite this volatility, the Romans were able to see off successive attacks by Parthians, Germans, Persians and Goths and to extend and entrench their position as masters of Europe and the Mediterranean. This books shows how they managed to do it.
Professor Michael Kulikowski describes the empire's cultural integration in the second century, the political crises of the third when Rome's Mediterranean world became subject to the larger forces of Eurasian history, and the remaking of Roman imperial institutions in the fourth century under Constantine and his son Constantius II. The Constantinian revolution, Professor Kulikowski argues, was the pivot on which imperial fortunes turned - and the beginning of the parting of ways between the eastern and western empires.
This sweeping account of one of the world's greatest empires at its magnificent peak is incisive, authoritative and utterly gripping.
Imperial Triumph (Paperback)
The Roman World from Hadrian to Constantine (AD 138–363)
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Two hundred years of Roman imperial politics and power brought to life in an action-packed narrative
Imperial Triumph presents the history of Rome at the height of its imperial power. Beginning with the reign of Hadrian in Rome and ending with the death of Julian the Apostate on campaign in Persia, it offers an intimate account of the twists and often deadly turns of imperial politics in which successive emperors rose and fell with sometimes bewildering rapidity. Yet, despite this volatility, the Romans were able to see off successive attacks by Parthians, Germans, Persians and Goths and to extend and entrench their position as masters of Europe and the Mediterranean. This books shows how they managed to do it.
Professor Michael Kulikowski describes the empire's cultural integration in the second century, the political crises of the third when Rome's Mediterranean world became subject to the larger forces of Eurasian history, and the remaking of Roman imperial institutions in the fourth century under Constantine and his son Constantius II. The Constantinian revolution, Professor Kulikowski argues, was the pivot on which imperial fortunes turned - and the beginning of the parting of ways between the eastern and western empires.
This sweeping account of one of the world's greatest empires at its magnificent peak is incisive, authoritative and utterly gripping.
Reviews for Imperial Triumph
Mary Beard, Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge
TLS
Adrian Goldsworthy Wall Street Journal
BBC History Magazine
Australian Book Review
Military History Review
Jerry Toner, Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge
Greg Woolf, Director, Institute of Classical Studies, University of London
R. W. Benet Salway, University College London
Alan Bowman, Formerly Camden Professor of Ancient History, University of Oxford
Hugh Elton, Trent University
Richard Talbert, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill