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Record Nr.

UNINA9910141172503321

Autore

Eckstein Arthur M

Titolo

Rome enters the Greek East [[electronic resource] ] : from anarchy to hierarchy in the Hellenistic Mediterranean, 230-170 BC / / Arthur M. Eckstein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, Mass., : Blackwell Pub., c2008

ISBN

1-4443-0156-X

1-4443-0157-8

1-118-29353-3

1-282-03453-7

9786612034534

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (456 p.)

Classificazione

15.51

Disciplina

937

938.09

938/.09

Soggetti

Anarchism - Rome

Greece History 281-146 B.C

Greece Relations Rome

Rome Relations Greece

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [382]-401) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgments; Maps; PART I ROME IN CONTACT WITH THE GREEK EAST, 230-205 bc; 1 Roman Expansion and the Pressures of Anarchy; 2 Rome and Illyria, ca. 230-217 bc; 3 Rome, the Greek States, and Macedon, 217-205 bc; PART II THE POWER-TRANSITION CRISIS IN THE GREEK MEDITERRANEAN, 207-200 bc; 4 The Pact Between the Kings and the Crisis in the Eastern Mediterranean State-System, 207-200 bc; 5 Reaction: Diplomatic Revolution in the Mediterranean, 203/202-200 bc; 6 Diplomatic Revolution in the Mediterranean, II: The Roman Decision to Intervene, 201/200 bc 1

PART III FROM HEGEMONIC WAR TO HIERARCHY, 200-170 bc7 Hegemonic War, I: Rome and Macedon, 200-196 bc; 8 Hegemonic War, II: Rome and Antiochus the Great, 200-188 bc; 9 Hierarchy and



Unipolarity, ca. 188-170 bc; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 MediterraneanFocuses 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