Rome's Mediterranean Empire

'I will do as the Senate decrees.' These words from one of Rome's opponents encapsulate the authority Rome achieved by its subjugation of the Mediterranean. The Third Macedonian War, recounted in this volume, ended the kingdom created by Philip II and Alexander the Great and was a crucial step in Rome's eventual dominance. For Livy, the story is also a fascinating moral study of the vices and virtues that hampered and promoted Rome's efforts in the conflict. He presents the war not so much as a battle against Perseus, Alexander's last and unworthy successor, than as a struggle within the Roman national character. Only traditional moral strength, embodied in Lucius Aemilius Paullus, the general who ultimately defeats Perseus, ensures the Roman victory. This edition also includes the Periochae, later summaries of Livy's entire original 142-book history of Rome from its founding to the age of Augustus (of which only 35 books survive).

ISBN 0199556024   Part volume Bks. 41-45 and the Periochae ISBN13 9780199556021 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 318 Publisher Oxford University Press   Published in Oxford Imprint Oxford University Press   Series title Oxford World's Classics Format Paperback   Previous ISBN 9780192833402 Publication date 27 Aug 2009   Height (mm) 196 Translator Jane D. Chaplin   Width (mm) 131 DEWEY 937.02   Spine width (mm) 24 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate Pages 432

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