The Triumph of Empire takes readers into the political heart of imperial Rome and recounts the extraordinary challenges overcome by a flourishing empire. Michael Kulikowski’s history begins with the reign of Hadrian, who visited the farthest reaches of his domain and created stable frontiers, and spans to the decades after Constantine the Great, who overhauled the government, i...(展开全部)

Imperial Triumph presents the history of Rome at the height of its imperial power. Beginning with the reign of Hadrian in Rome and ending with the death of Julian the Apostate on campaign in Persia, it offers an intimate account of the twists and often deadly turns of imperial politics in which successive emperors rose and fell with sometimes bewildering rapidity. Yet, despite ...(展开全部)

【著者简介】 迈克尔·库利科夫斯基，宾夕法尼亚州立大学历史与古典学讲席教授，晚期罗马历史学家，研究公元2世纪到5世纪之间罗马帝国的政治和制度史。他曾著有《晚期罗马的西班牙及其城市》《从3世纪到阿拉里克的罗马哥特战争》，并经常为《伦敦书评》撰稿。 【译者简介】 王晨，毕业于上海交通大学，译作有《古典传统》《教化》《罗马元老院与人民》《黑死病》《金与铁》《论欧洲》《拷问法国大革命》《破碎的生活》等。

The Tragedy of Empire begins in the late fourth century with the reign of Julian, the last non-Christian Roman emperor, and takes readers to the final years of the Western Roman Empire at the end of the sixth century. One hundred years before Julian’s rule, Emperor Diocletian had resolved that an empire stretching from the Atlantic to the Euphrates, and from the Rhine and Tyne ...(展开全部)

Beginning with the Roman army’s first foray beyond its borders and concluding with the death of Hadrian in 138 CE, this panoramic history of the early Roman Empire recounts the wars, leaders, and social transformations that lay the foundations of imperial success. Between 264 BCE, when the Roman army crossed into Sicily, and the death of Hadrian nearly three hundred years later...(展开全部)

安傑羅．查尼歐提斯Angelos Chaniotis 普林斯頓大學高等研究院歷史研究學院教授，也是牛津大學萬靈學院（All Souls）的前院士。他曾撰寫多部著作與文章，並擔任《希臘銘文補充調查報告》（Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum）的資深編輯，以及古典研究期刊《謨涅摩敘涅》（Mnemosyne）的編輯。 譯者簡介 黃楷君 政大阿拉伯語文學系、廣播電視學系畢業，曾任出版社編輯，現為文字工作者、譯者、內容力有限公司特約譯者。譯有《手寫時代》、《穆罕默德：宣揚謙卑、寬容與和平的先知》、《福爾摩沙．美麗之島》（合譯）、《時光出土：考古學的故事》、《原始富足：布希曼族的生存之道，以及他們能教給我們什麼？》等書，及合著《吹過島嶼的歌》。

The world that Alexander remade in his lifetime was transformed once more by his death in 323 BCE. His successors reorganized Persian lands to create a new empire stretching from the eastern Mediterranean as far as present-day Afghanistan, while in Greece and Macedonia a fragile balance of power repeatedly dissolved into war. Then, from the late third century BCE to the end of ...(展开全部)

J. B. 伯里（John Bagnell Bury，1861—1927），英国著名历史学家、古典学家和文献学家。学问渊博，著述等身，曾计划并参与《剑桥古代史》《剑桥中世纪史》《剑桥近代史》等书之编辑。1902年获任剑桥大学钦定近代史讲座教授。研究涉足古希腊史、古罗马史、19世纪教皇史、西方思想史等多个领域的研究，尤以晚期罗马帝国史和拜占庭史见长。其著作的范围从古代希腊史一直到19世纪的教会史。其代表作有《晚期罗马帝国：从阿卡狄乌斯到爱里尼》（A History of the Later Roman Empire: From Arcadius to Irene，1889年）、《希腊史：至亚历山大大帝去世》（A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great，1900年）、《东罗马帝国史：从爱...(展开全部)

J. B. 伯里（John Bagnell Bury，1861—1927），英国著名历史学家、古典学家和文献学家。学问渊博，著述等身，曾计划并参与《剑桥古代史》《剑桥中世纪史》《剑桥近代史》等书之编辑。1902年获任剑桥大学钦定近代史讲座教授。研究涉足古希腊史、古罗马史、19世纪教皇史、西方思想史等多个领域的研究，尤以晚期罗马帝国史和拜占庭史见长。其著作的范围从古代希腊史一直到19世纪的教会史。其代表作有《晚期罗马帝国：从阿卡狄乌斯到爱里尼》（A History of the Later Roman Empire: From Arcadius to Irene，1889年）、《希腊史：至亚历山大大帝去世》（A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great，1900年）、《东罗马帝国史：从爱...(展开全部)

The Greek statesman Polybius (c.200 - 118 BC) wrote his account of the relentless growth of the Roman Empire in order to help his fellow countrymen understand how their world came to be dominated by Rome. Opening with the Punic War in 264 BC, he vividly records the critical stages of Roman expansion: its campaigns throughout the Mediterranean, the temporary setbacks inflicted b...(展开全部)