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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779110103321

Autore

Ando Clifford <1969->

Titolo

Imperial Rome AD 193-284 [[electronic resource] ] : the critical century / / Clifford Ando

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2012

ISBN

1-282-05924-6

9786613799081

0-7486-2920-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (271 pages)

Collana

Edinburgh History of Ancient Rome.

Disciplina

937.07

Soggetti

Rome History Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Figures; Series editor's preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Map 1; Map 2; Maps 3 and 4; Chapter 1: A critical century; Chapter 2: The principal author of the decline and fall; Chapter 3: The legacies of Septimius Severus; Chapter 4: Law, citizenship and the Antonine revolution; Chapter 5: The empire and its neighbors: Maximinus to Philip; Chapter 6: Religion; Chapter 7: Failure and fragmentation: From the accession of Decius to the death of Gallienus; Chapter 8: Government and governmentality; Chapter 9: Reconquest and recidivism, 268-84; Chapter 10: Conclusion

Emperors and usurpersChronology; Guide to further reading; Works cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A pioneering history of this period of crisisThe Roman empire during the period framed by the accession of Septimus Severus in 193 and the rise of Diocletian in 284 has conventionally been regarded as one of crisis. Between 235 and 284, at least eighteen men held the throne of the empire, for an average of less than three years, a reckoning which does not take into account all the relatives and lieutenants with whom those men shared power. Compared to the century between the accession of Nerva and the death of Commodus, this appears to be a period of near unintelligibility. The middle of the c