TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - Rome, global dreams, and the international origins of an empire
T2  - Impact of empire
A1  - Davies, Sarah H. kirjoittaja
LA  - eng
PP  - Leiden ; Boston
PB  - Brill
YR  - 2020
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.5432116
AB  - "In Rome, Global Dreams, and the International Origins of an Empire, Sarah Davies explores how the Roman Republic evolved, in ideological terms, into an 'Empire without end.' This work stands out within Roman imperialism studies by placing a distinct emphasis on the role of international-level norms and concepts in shaping Roman imperium. Using a combination of literary, epigraphic, and numismatic evidence, Davies highlights three major factors in this process. First is the development, in the third and second centuries BCE, of a self-aware international community with a cosmopolitan vision of a single, universalizing world-system. Second is the misalignment of Rome's polity and concomitant diplomatic practices with those of its Hellenistic contemporaries. And third is contemporary historiography, which inserted Rome into a cyclical (and cosmic) rise-and-fall of great power"--
NO  - Extensive and substantial revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Texas at Austin, 2012, titled Rome, international power relations, and 146 BCE.
SN  - 978-90-04-41226-2 sidottu
KW  - 510 B.C.-476 A.D.
KW  - Imperialism.
KW  - Rome : History : Republic, 510-30 B.C.
KW  - Rome : History : Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D.
KW  - Rome (Empire)
ER  -