The Roman Civil Wars

The Archaeology and History of a Crisis

Dominik Maschek (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

432 Seiten

2025
Liverpool University Press (Verlag)
978-1-83624-338-0 (ISBN)

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The late Roman Republic was characterized by severe crises, ranging from the time of the Gracchi to the Battle of Actium and finally ending with the Principate of Augustus. Individual military leaders such as Marius, Sulla, and Pompey acquired so much power that the internal cohesion of the Republic was shattered. The Roman state descended into civil war. By drawing upon a range of case studies, from monumental building to public dining, Dominik Maschek demonstrates that the harsh realities and disruptions of civil war were intimately bound up with growing wealth and prosperity: on the one hand, they were fueled by the increasing complexity of urban life and conspicuous consumption which gave rise to greed and violent appropriation; on the other hand, by the forceful and premature promotion of new ‘controlling generations’, they also played a vital role in conditioning the worldviews and socio-cultural norms that regulated the use of material culture. Drawing upon the latest advances in Roman archaeology and history, Dominik Maschek uses buildings and images, as well as rituals and acts of state, to analyze these structural underpinnings and the impact of the late Republican civil wars and for the first time offers an overall interpretation of their cultural history.

Dominik Maschek is Professor of Roman Archaeology at the University of Trier and leads the research department of Roman Archaeology at the LEIZA in Mainz. He works on the archaeology of conflict and material culture in the Late Roman Republic.

Introduction

Chapter 1: Rome’s Mediterranean Revolution in the 2nd century BCE

Chapter 2: Between ‘Globalization’ and Exploitation: the New Mediterranean World Order

Chapter 3: Escalations of Violence: Causes and Consequences

Chapter 4: Cities and the Countryside

Chapter 5: Land Ownership and Society in the Civil War Period

Chapter 6: Construction Booms and Consumer Behaviour in Times of Crisis

Conclusion

Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	09.04.2025
Reihe/Serie	Liverpool Studies in Ancient History
Zusatzinfo	26 Illustrations
Verlagsort	Liverpool
Sprache	englisch
Maße	163 x 239 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
ISBN-10	1-83624-338-3 / 1836243383
ISBN-13	978-1-83624-338-0 / 9781836243380
Zustand	Neuware