Rome: From the Republic to the Empire. Egorov A.

In the book of a large domestic historian, professor of St. Petersburg State University A. B. Egorov, the transition of Rome from the republic to the empire at the turn of the II-1 BC is considered. e. - A long and painful process marked by the activities of the great Roman politicians: Maria, Sulla, Pompey, Caesar, Octavian Augustus and his heirs. The book also presents the evolution of the principle system during the time of emperors from the dynasties of the Juliev-Claws, Flavians and Antonins. The author showed how for several centuries there was a struggle of new ideas and principles of monarchical structure and old republican traditions in Rome - a struggle that caused a series of crises in the state and led to the formation of imperial institutions of power.