Arthur M. Eckstein
Autor(a) de Mediterranean Anarchy, Interstate War, and the Rise of Rome
About the Author
Arthur M. Eckstein is Professor of History at the University of Maryland, College Park, and the author of Moral Vision in the Histories of Polybius and Senate and General: Individual Decision-Making and Roman Foreign Relations, 264-194 B.C., both from UC Press.
Obras de Arthur M. Eckstein
Associated Works
Hellenistic Constructs: Essays in Culture, History, and Historiography (1997) — Contribuinte — 17 cópias
War, warlords, and interstate relations in the ancient Mediterranean (2017) — Contribuinte — 4 cópias
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Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1946-09-13
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Hempstead, New York, USA
- Locais de residência
- Maryland, USA
- Educação
- University of California, Los Angeles (BA | 1968)
University of California, Los Angeles (MA | 1970)
University of California, Berkeley (PhD | 1978) - Ocupação
- professor
historian - Organizações
- University of Maryland
American Historical Association
American Philological Association
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- Obras
- 6
- Also by
- 11
- Membros
- 146
- Popularidade
- #141,736
- Avaliação
- 3.6
- Resenhas
- 2
- ISBNs
- 20
This is precisely the pattern that Eckstein shows prevailed in both classical and Hellenistic Greece and the Mediterranean. When he turns his attention to the early expansion of Rome in central Italy, Eckstein shows how lucky Rome was to survive, much less to expand, surrounded as it was by other militarized states. A discussion of Roman expansion in the western Mediterranean argues that Rome was no more bellicose or militarized than other states in the region.
If Rome was not exceptionally warlike, then how does Eckstein explain Rome’s expansion? Eckstein argues that Rome’s unique willingness to integrate former enemies into a flexible alliance system and even into citizenship allowed the Republic to assemble large resources and to sustain terrible defeats while ultimately prevailing.… (mais)