Swords Against the Senate
Subtitle: The Rise of the Roman Army and the Fall of the Republic
Publisher: Da Capo
Published: November 11, 2003
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780306812798
Subjects: European history: BCE to c 500 CE; History; History - General History; History: World; Ancient Rome; Ancient - Rome; History / Ancient / Rome
First sentence: IN THE SPRING OF 137 B.C. A MOST UNLIKELY REVOLUTIONARY passed north through Etruria and along the Italian coast on his way to a war in Spain: Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, twenty-six, a nobleman of one of the best families in Rome, his father a successful general and statesman, both consul and censor.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: An unlikely revolutionary; title: The army; title: Fissures show; title: The breach widens; title: The Jugurthine War; title: The Jugurthine War continues; title: Marius and Jugurtha; title: Trouble in the North; title: The Northern Campaign; title: After the wars; title: The Italian War; title: Civil War; title: Sulla, Marius and Mithridates; title: The return; title: Epilogue