AuthorMontesquieu, Charles de Secondat, baron de, 1689-1755
TitleConsiderations on the causes of the greatness of the Romans and their decline / translated, with notes and an introduction, by David Lowenthal
Imprint New York : Free Press, 1965
Descript x, 243 p. ; 22 cm

CONTENT

Beginnings of Rome; its wars -- Art of war among the Romans -- How the Romans were able to expand -- The Gauls; Pyrrhus; comparison of Carthage and Rome; Hannibal's war -- Condition of Greece, Macedonia, Syria, and Egypt after the reduction of the Carthaginians -- The conduct the Romans pursued to subjugate all peoples -- How Mithridates was able to resist them -- Dissensions that always existed in the city -- Two causes of Rome's ruin


SUBJECT

  1. Rome -- History

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