Roman history. In 4 books. Mommzen T.

“Roman history” is a truly titanic work of Theodore Mommzen (1817-1903), which became the first German laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1902) and awarded the assessment “The Great Existing Master of Historical Literature” largely thanks to this particular work.

The outstanding anti -people, philologist and traveler, Mommzen relied on gigantic factual material collected and systematized by him after many years of scientific expeditions in Italy. Their result was the creation of the so -called “Corps of Latin inscriptions”, which includes 180 thousand different written sources, which formed the basis of “Roman history.”

the events of its first volume cover the vast period of antiquity: from the board of fifty -legendary seven the Roman kings and the associations of Italy under the rule of the Senate to the third battle of Pidna (168 BC), which put an end to the Macedonian kingdom and led to the final establishment of democracy in the Hellenic lands.

The events of its second volume extend From the period of conquest of the Hellenistic East and the beginning of the era of reform to the establishment of the dictatorship of Lucius Cornelius Sulla and the deep crisis of the republican form of government, which became the harbingers of the transition to the future Roman Empire. After the death of the dictator of Sulla (78 BC), and continue until the last civil war of the Republic of the Republic (49-45 BC), bringing to the forefront of the narrative the figure of Gai Julia Caesar, whom the author considered The hero of not only Roman, but also all world history.

The final fifth volume gives a detailed characteristic of the provinces of the empire, which has forever remained one of the most grandiose state formations in the world. Her power during the highest heyday spread in a total area of ​​6.51 million square kilometers. Roman law triumphed everywhere where the Kaliga of the Roman legionnaire was protected by the land: from the rich in Luzitania in the West to a striking, deserted Syria in the east, from fertile Kirenaica in the south to poor Britain in the north.

The book is described in detail in detail , military affairs, diplomacy, economics and culture of Rome, as well as its opponents and allies. The proposed publication can serve as a manual for studying the history of the largest ancient civilization, acting as a foundation of modern Western society.

for students and teachers of historical, cultural, political science specialties, as well as all those interested in the problems of world history.