Swords Against the Senate: The Rise of the Roman Army and the Fall of the Republic

by Erik Hildinger

Book Overview

After Rome defeated its age-old enemy, Carthage, it was the undisputed ruler of a vast empire.Yet, at the heart of the Roman Republic was a peculiar flaw: an uneradicable tension between the aristocracy and the plebians, and each regarded themselves as the foundation of Rome's military power.Swords Against the Senate relates how the republic began to come apart amid military and political turmoil-the smoldering anger of the common people, a petty...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306811685
• ISBN13: 9780306811685
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"