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Taken at the Flood - The Roman Conquest of Greece (Hardcover)
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Taken at the Flood - The Roman Conquest of Greece (Hardcover)
Series: Ancient Warfare and Civilization
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"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
political system almost the entire known world was conquered and
brought under a single empire in less than fifty-three years?"
--Polybius, Histories
The 53-year period Polybius had in mind stretched from the start of
the Second Punic War in 219 BCE until 167, when Rome overthrew the
Macedonian monarchy and divided the country into four independent
republics. 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.
Taken at the Flood chronicles this momentous move by Rome into the
Greek east. 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. For over
seventy years, the Romans avoided annexation so that they could
commit their military and financial resources to the fight against
Carthage and elsewhere. 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.
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. The result is an absorbing account of a
critical chapter in Rome's mastery of the Mediterranean.
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