Roman World from Romulus to Muhammad

Greg Fisher is a graduate of the University of Oxford, UK, and the author and editor of numerous works on the ancient world, including Between Empires (2011), Arabs and Empires Before Islam (2015), Hannibal and Scipio (2015), and Rome, Persia, and Arabia (Routledge 2020).

• List of figures; List of maps; Acknowledgments; Copyright notices; Note to the reader; Chapter OneThe origins of Rome; Chapter TwoThe early Republic, 509–280 BC; Chapter Three‘True athletes of warfare’: Rome, Carthage, and Pyrrhus, 280–225 BC; Chapter Four‘The empire of the world’: Rome, Greece, Macedonia, and Hannibal, 264–200 BC; Chapter Five‘Against our own Roman gods’: Rome and the Greek east, 200–146 BC; Chapter SixThe collapse of public order, 140–63 BC; Chapter SevenCoup, 63–30 BC; Chapter EightMonarchy and empire: Augustus, 30 BC–AD 14; Chapter NineFrom stability to chaos, AD 14–79; Chapter TenConsolidating the principate, AD 72–138; Chapter ElevenDecay, 138–235; Chapter TwelveThe empire transformed, 235–337; Chapter ThirteenDivision and collapse, 337–493; Chapter FourteenThe end of antiquity, 491–642; Glossary; Further reading; Index

"Fisher...deserves great credit for having broken down the wall between Roman history, wrongly perceived as just the history of Greeks and Romans, and the history of all the peoples east of the empire, included the Arabs. Fisher thus masterfully succeeds in highlighting the universal rule that from the ashes of one empire, another is born." - Bryn Mawr Classical Review"Though chapters follow a recognisably standard periodisation of Roman history, F. makes some distinctive choices within this framework...these choices underscore F.’s dynamic reorientation of the Roman Empire eastwards, and this makes for a provocative reframing of the evolution of Roman imperial power at the intersection of complex global networks." - The Classical Review