Rome Enters the Greek East (eBook)

From Anarchy to Hierarchy in the Hellenistic Mediterranean, 230-170 BC

Arthur M. Eckstein (Autor)

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2009
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-4443-0157-1 (ISBN)

Infos

This volume examines the period from Rome's earliest involvement in the eastern Mediterranean to the establishment of Roman geopolitical dominance over all the Greek states from the Adriatic Sea to Syria by the 180s BC. Applies modern political theory to ancient Mediterranean history, taking a Realist approach to its analysis of Roman involvement in the Greek Mediterranean Focuses on the harsh nature of interactions among states under conditions of anarchy while examining the conduct of both Rome and Greek states during the period, and focuses on what the concepts of modern political science can tell us about ancient international relations Includes detailed discussion of the crisis that convulsed the Greek world in the last decade of the third century BC Provides a balanced portrait of Roman militarism and imperialism in the Hellenistic world

Autor

Arthur M. Eckstein is a specialist in the history of Roman imperialism. He has published three books, Senate and General: Individual Decision-Making and Roman Foreign Relations, 264-194 BC (1987), Moral Vision in the Histories of Polybius (1995), Mediterranean Anarchy, Interstate War and the Rise of Rome (2006), and 50 major scholarly articles. He is also co-editing an edition of Polybius' Histories.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments vi

List of Maps vii

Part I Rome in Contact with the Greek East, 230-205
BC 1

1 Roman Expansion and the Pressures of Anarchy 3

2 Rome and Illyria, ca. 230-217 bc 29

3 Rome, the Greek States, and Macedon, 217-205 bc 77

Part II The Power-Transition Crisis in the Greek
Mediterranean, 207-200 BC 119

4 The Pact Between the Kings and the Crisis in the Eastern
Mediterranean State-System, 207-200 bc 121

5 Reaction: Diplomatic Revolution in the Mediterranean,
203/202-200 bc 181

6 Diplomatic Revolution in the Mediterranean, II: The Roman
Decision to Intervene, 201/200 bc 230

Part III From Hegemonic War to Hierarchy, 200-170
BC 271

7 Hegemonic War, I: Rome and Macedon, 200-196 bc 273

8 Hegemonic War, II: Rome and Antiochus the Great, 200-188
bc 306

9 Hierarchy and Unipolarity, ca. 188-170 bc 342

Bibliography 382

Index 402

Rezensionen

"A strength of Eckstein's volume is the balance of
international relations theory with the detailed history of the
transformation of the Hellenistic multipolar anarchy from the First
Illyrian War to the period of Roman "unipolarity". This
consolidates the placement of political theory within current
historiography of the interstate relations of the mid- Republic and
Hellenistic world. Based on the reception of IR Realism in the
various studies cited here which have engaged directly or
peripherally with Eckstein's volume, there are two major
ideas for which he argues that are already working their way
through the ancient historical consciousness: that fear, threat,
force and violence underpin interstate discourses and were
commonplace in the experiences and strategies of both primary and
secondary polities; and that all polities were stakeholders in
international relations, with neither Roman (or others')
ambivalence preventing their participation, nor secondary
states' comparative weakness limiting their determination to
join the negotiation of conflict. We shall in future see much more
scholarship based upon these two central arguments."
(Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 7 May 2013)



"This is a stimulating and provocative book that will force
scholars to look afresh at Rome's conquest of the eastern
Mediterranean."

-Andrew Erskine, University of Edinburgh

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.1.2009
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: Altertum • Analysis • Anarchy • Ancient & Classical History • Approach • Classical Studies • Creation • Development • Eastern • First Stage • Geschichte • Geschichte des Altertums u. der klassischen Antike • Greek • History • Humanistische Studien • international • Involvement • Mediterranean • Modern • Period • Political • Römische Geschichte • Realist • Roman • Roman History • romes earliest • Römische Geschichte • States • theory • Volume
• ISBN-10: 1-4443-0157-8 / 1444301578
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4443-0157-1 / 9781444301571