Rome and the Mediterranean 290 to 146 BC The Imperial Republic
- 312 pages
- 11 hours of reading
Nathan Rosenstein charts Rome's incredible journey and command of the Mediterranean over the course of the third and second centuries BC.
Nathan Stewart Rosenstein Book order (chronological)
Nathan Rosenstein is a historian specializing in the Roman Republic and early Empire. His work focuses on military conflicts, political competition, and the social impacts of warfare on Roman society. He explores how defeats influenced aristocratic elites and how institutions and family life transformed due to constant military campaigns. His research offers deep insights into the power dynamics and strategic decisions that shaped ancient Rome.
War and Society in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds
Asia, the Mediterranean, Europe, and Mesoamerica
- 496 pages
- 18 hours of reading
This volume is a unique, multi-authored social history of war from the third millennium B.C.E. to the tenth century C.E. in the Mediterranean, the Near East, and Europe (Egypt, Achaemenid Persia, Greece, the Hellenistic World, the Roman Republic and Empire, the Byzantine Empire, the early Islamic World, and early Medieval Europe), with parallel studies of Mesoamerica (the Maya and Aztecs) and East Asia (ancient China, medieval Japan). The product of a colloquium at Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies, this volume offers a broadly based, comparative examination of war and military organization in their complex interactions with social, economic, and political structures as well as cultural practices.