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ISBN10: 0198767471, ISBN13: 9780198767473, [publisher: Oxford University Press Nov 2016] Softcover Neuware - The Romans first set military foot on Greek soil in 229 BCE; only sixty or so years later it was all over, and shortly thereafter Greece became one of the first provinces of the emerging Roman Empire. It was an incredible journey - a swift, brutal, and determined conquest of the land to whose art, philosophy, and culture the Romans owed so much.Rome found the eastern Mediterranean divided, in an unstable balance of power, between three great kingdoms - the three Hellenistic kingdoms that had survived and flourished after the wars of Alexander the Great's Successors: Macedon, Egypt, and Syria. Internal troubles took Egypt more or less out of the picture, but the other two were reduced by Rome. Having established itself, by its defeat of Carthage, as the sole superpower in the western Mediterranean, Rome then systematically went aboutdoing the same in the east, until the entire Mediterranean was under her control.Apart from the thrilling military action, the story of the Roman conquest of Greece is central to the story of Rome itself and the empire it created. As Robin Waterfield shows, the Romans developed a highly sophisticated method of dominance by remote control over the Greeks of the eastern Mediterranean - the cheap option of using authority and diplomacy to keep order rather than standing armies. And it is a story that raises a number of ...
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OUP Oxford, Date: 2016. Paperback. New. 320 pages. 8.43x5.43x0.87 inches. 2016. OUP Oxford ISBN 0198767471 9780198767473 [GB]

Paperback / softback. New. The story of the Roman conquest of Greece - not only a thrilling tale of military conquest, but a pivotal event in the history of Rome, her empire, and the whole subsequent history of Europe. ISBN 0198767471 9780198767473 [GB]

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OUP Oxford, Date: 2016. Paperback. New. 320 pages. 8.43x5.43x0.87 inches. 2016. OUP Oxford ISBN 0198767471 9780198767473 [GB]