Taken at the Flood: The Roman Conquest of Greece (Ancient Warfare and Civilization)
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| Rating | : | 4.93 (618 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0190468882 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-10-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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William H. Lambrukos said Was looking for a long time for a book like this. It gives information not easily found in. Was looking for a long time for a book like this. It gives information not easily found in other books, which usually gloss over the experience from the Greek side and default to the conquest of Greece from the Roman side. Highly recommend this.. Summary of Livy and Polybius with partisan rhetoric If you want the information without the authors biased and extremely subjective opinions and twists, than read Polybius and Livy. He clearly is just summarizing their books and did no further research. If you do buy this garbage, you will be fed a steady stream of moral relativism that always finds a way to paint Rome as the bad guy no matter what they do. Example, after the first and second Illyrian wars, and after the Macedonian wars, Rome either did or attempted to withdraw all its troops and leave the Greeks to t. Not as Controversial as Some Say This is a compact military and political history of the Roman conflicts with Greece between 229-1Not as Controversial as Some Say Dmitri Guerriero This is a compact military and political history of the Roman conflicts with Greece between 229-146 BC, told by a well-known classicist writer and translator. It is set forth without a lot of polemical frills, contrary to what some suggest here and in the Bryn Mawr Classical Review. The events are clearly related, and the book works well as an introduction to the period. It is not an in-depth or comprehensive survey of the period; this would not be possible in 236 pages. There is not much social or cultural history p. 6 BC, told by a well-known classicist writer and translator. It is set forth without a lot of polemical frills, contrary to what some suggest here and in the Bryn Mawr Classical Review. The events are clearly related, and the book works well as an introduction to the period. It is not an in-depth or comprehensive survey of the period; this would not be possible in 236 pages. There is not much social or cultural history p
In addition to more than 25 translations of works of Greek literature, he is the author of numerous books, most recently Dividing the Spoils: The War for Alexander the Great's Empire.. Robin Waterfield is an independent scholar, living in southern Greece
Waterfield's fast-paced narrative focuses mainly on military and diplomatic maneuvers, but throughout he interweaves other topics and themes, such as the influence of Greek culture on Rome, the Roman aristocratic ethos, and the clash between the two best fighting machines the ancient world ever produced: the Macedonian phalanx and Roman legion. Until now, this period of history has been overshadowed by the threat of Carthage in the west, but events in the east were no less important in themselves, and Robin Waterfield's account reveals the peculiar nature of Rome's eastern policy. The result is an absorbing account of a critical chapter in Rome's mastery of the Mediterranean.. This was the crucial half-century of Rome's spectacular rise to imperial status, but Roman interest in its eastern neighbors began a little earlier, with the First Illyrian War of 229, and climaxed later with the infamous destruction of Corinth in 146. Though ultimately a failure, this policy of indirect rule, punctuated by periodic brutal military interventions and intense diplomacy, worked well for several decades, until the Senate finally settled on more direct forms of control. "Is there anyone on earth who is so narrow-minded or uninquisitive that he could fail to want to know how and thanks to what kind of pol
"Waterfield has made himself into a living international treasure by his lean and lucid accounts of some of the most involved periods of ancient history (here, Rome's wars in Greece and Macedonia; in Dividing the Spoils, the wars of Alexander the Great's successors). Lendon, The Weekly Standard"The story Waterfield tells is complex, but he tells it well." --Peter Jones, BBC History"This sorry story is told with great verve and pace by Waterfield." --Literary Review"Taken at the Flood is a thrilling account of the bloody process that created Greco-Roman civilization. This has filled that void, in what will long remain the definitive account of Rome's subjugation of the once powerful Greek state