Rome: From the Republic to the Empire

The book of a large domestic historian, professor of St. Petersburg State University A.B. Egorov considers the transition of Rome from the republic to the empire at the turn of the I - II centuries BC. - 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 Julia-Clawdis dynasty, antinins flavians. The author showed how for several centuries there was a struggle of new ideas, the principles of monarchical structure and old republican traditions - a struggle that caused a series of crises in the state and led to the formation of imperial institutions of power