Rome at War
Subtitle: Farms, Families, and Death in the Middle Republic (Studies in the History of Greece and Rome)
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: December 3, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780807828397
Subjects: European history: BCE to c 500 CE; History; Ancient - Rome; Technology & Industrial Arts; History: World; Ancient Rome; Agriculture - General; Agriculture, Ancient; Agriculture; Economic aspects; Farms, Small; Rome
First sentence: Limits on aristocratic competition for honor, glory, wealth, and power protected the corporate interests of Rome's governing class as well as the wellbeing of the people it ruled during most of the middle and late republic.