Considerations on the causes of the greatness of the Romans and their decline /
Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, baron de, 1689-1755.
Considerations on the causes of the greatness of the Romans and their decline / Montesquieu ; translated, with introduction and notes, by David Lowenthal. - Indianapolis ; Cambridge : Hackett Pub., 1999. - 243 p. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Beginnings of Rome; its Wars -- The Art of War Among the Romans -- How the Romans were Able to Expand -- The Gauls; Pyrrhus; Comparison of Carthage and Rome; Hannibal's War -- The 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 -- The Dissensions that Always Existed in the City -- Two Causes of Rome's Ruin -- The Corruption of the Romans -- Sulla; Pompey and Caesar -- The Condition of Rome After Caesar's Death -- Augustus -- Tiberius -- The Emperors from Caius Caligula to Antoninus -- The Condition of the Empire, from Antoninus to Probus -- Change in the State -- New Maxims Adopted by the Romans -- Attila's Greatness; Cause of the Settlement of the Barbarians; Reasons why the Western Empire was the First to Fall -- Justinian's Conquest; his Government -- Disorders of the Eastern Empire -- Weakness of the Eastern Empire -- Reason for the Duration of the Eastern Empire; its Destruction. I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII. IX. X. XI. XII. XIII. XIV. XV. XVI. XVII. XVIII. XIX. XX. XXI. XXII. XXIII.
0872204960 (pbk.) 0872204979 (cloth)
99028814
GBA2-71044
Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, baron de, 1689-1755. Considérations sur les causes de la grandeur des Romains.
Rome--History.
DG210 / .M778 1999
937
Considerations on the causes of the greatness of the Romans and their decline / Montesquieu ; translated, with introduction and notes, by David Lowenthal. - Indianapolis ; Cambridge : Hackett Pub., 1999. - 243 p. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Beginnings of Rome; its Wars -- The Art of War Among the Romans -- How the Romans were Able to Expand -- The Gauls; Pyrrhus; Comparison of Carthage and Rome; Hannibal's War -- The 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 -- The Dissensions that Always Existed in the City -- Two Causes of Rome's Ruin -- The Corruption of the Romans -- Sulla; Pompey and Caesar -- The Condition of Rome After Caesar's Death -- Augustus -- Tiberius -- The Emperors from Caius Caligula to Antoninus -- The Condition of the Empire, from Antoninus to Probus -- Change in the State -- New Maxims Adopted by the Romans -- Attila's Greatness; Cause of the Settlement of the Barbarians; Reasons why the Western Empire was the First to Fall -- Justinian's Conquest; his Government -- Disorders of the Eastern Empire -- Weakness of the Eastern Empire -- Reason for the Duration of the Eastern Empire; its Destruction. I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII. IX. X. XI. XII. XIII. XIV. XV. XVI. XVII. XVIII. XIX. XX. XXI. XXII. XXIII.
0872204960 (pbk.) 0872204979 (cloth)
99028814
GBA2-71044
Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, baron de, 1689-1755. Considérations sur les causes de la grandeur des Romains.
Rome--History.
DG210 / .M778 1999
937