M Cary

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ID3754732
NAMEM Cary
GIVEN NAMESM
FAMILY NAMECary
SIGNATURECARY M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of London
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TOTAL WORKS66
TOTAL CITATIONS24
AUTHOR COUNT66
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1919
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX3

  • Hellenistic Philosophy

    M Cary, V EhrenbergCHAPTERA History of the Greek World from…2024

  • A History of the Greek World from 323 to 146 B.C

    M CaryBOOKA History of the Greek World from…2024Cited by: 1

    A History of the Greek World from 323 to 146 B.C. (1951) looks at the period of Greek history from the Macedonian to the Roman conquests. It contains a narrative of the political history of the Hellenistic states; a description of their statecraft, war-craft and economic practice; and a summary of later Greek achievement in the fields of art, literature, science, philosophy and religion

  • Life and Thought in the Greek and Roman World

    M Cary, T J HaarhofBOOKLife and Thought in the Greek and…2024

  • Race, place, and the politics of land: Agrarian Dimensions of Environmental Justice

    Michael M Cary, M CaryARTICLELatin American and Caribbean…2024References: 7

  • Pyropolitics and the Production of Territory

    Open AccessMichael M Cary, M CaryARTICLEEnvironment and Society2023

    This review article puts recent social science research on the politics of landscape fire into conversation with scholarship on territory. It argues that contemporary efforts to regulate and suppress fire are fundamentally territorial in that they represent strategies to shape production and accumulation within politically bounded spaces. Reading literature on fire governance through the lens of territory demonstrates the role that a particular d…

  • A History of Rome: Down to the Age of Constantine

    Open AccessM Cary, H H ScullardBOOKA History of Rome1980Cited by: 3

    Traces the history of Roman civilization from the Stone Age to the fourth century a.d., covering social, intellectual, religious, political, and military developments and illuminating recent scholastic and archaeological research

  • A History of Rome

    Open AccessM Cary, H H ScullardBOOKHistory of Rome1975

  • The Wars of Lucullus, Pompey and Crassus

    M Cary, H H ScullardCHAPTERHistory of Rome1975

    Shortly after the death of Sulla the Senate was called upon to grapple more seriously with the problem of the pirates of the Mediterranean, whose activities of recent years had attained such a scale as to threaten vital Roman interests. At the instigation of Mithridates, who saw in them useful auxiliaries to his own navy, and of a new class of political refugees whom the upheavals of the 80s had set adrift in East and West, the corsairs began to …

  • The Conflict of the Orders. The First Stage

    M Cary, H H ScullardCHAPTERHistory of Rome1975

    The revolution which ended the monarchy at Rome was effected, like all, such movements in the early history of ancient city-states, by the nobles and for the nobles.1 The Roman Republic was therefore first constituted as an aristocracy. About 500 b.c. the patrician gentes, which at that time numbered about fifty, contained less than one-tenth of the free population.2 But their wealth and power of patronage, and their esprit de corps, intensified …

  • The ‘Five Good Emperors’. General Administration

    M Cary, H H ScullardCHAPTERHistory of Rome1975

    The murder of Domitian was accomplished without the participation of the household troops, whose rank and file had been unshakeably loyal to the late emperor. But one of their commanders, Petronius Secundus, was in collusion with Domitia. After the death of Domitian he contrived to keep the Guards in check, while the Senate proceeded to make its first free choice of a successor. The imperial power was transferred to a senior senator, named M. Coc…

  • The Roman Empire under Augustus

    M Cary, H H ScullardCHAPTERHistory of Rome1975

    After the civil wars Augustus had a free hand to reshape the foreign policy of Rome as thoroughly as he had reconstructed its internal administration. With all the armed forces of the Empire at his permanent disposal, he had ample means to resume and to extend Caesar’s schemes of conquest. Public opinion at Rome, which had but recently hailed him as the bringer of internal peace, presently urged him to fresh wars against foreign enemies, includin…

  • The First Punic War and the Conquest of North Italy

    M Cary, H H ScullardCHAPTERHistory of Rome1975

    The year 264, which marks the beginning of Rome’s overseas conquests, may also be taken as the point at which Roman history emerges from shadow-land into daylight. By this time documentary materials for the writing of history had begun to accumulate (pp. 57ff.), and the earliest Roman annalists, writing at the end of the third century, could obtain information about the First Punic War from actual eye-witnesses.

  • The Early Wars of the Republic

    M Cary, H H ScullardCHAPTERHistory of Rome1975

    Etruscan power in Latium had collapsed with the defeat of Porsenna’s forces at Aricia, and Rome was freed not only from the Tarquins but also from the vanquished Porsenna (p. 55). The new Republic in its treaty with Carthage had boldly reasserted Rome’s claim to considerable control in Latium (p. 55): this the now victorious Latins would not recognise, and so conflict soon followed. Their League, from which of course Rome was now excluded, presum…

  • The Roman Empire under the Julio-Claudian Dynasty

    M Cary, H H ScullardCHAPTERHistory of Rome1975

    With the notable exception of Claudius the successors of Augustus complied with his advice not to extend the Roman Empire beyond its existing boundaries. Tiberius, who had given ample proof of his military ability under the direction of Augustus, would not trust himself to wage war on his own responsibility, and the next three emperors were unfit to assume command of armies. But emperors who did not take the field in person had reason to fear tha…

  • The Second Punic War

    M Cary, H H ScullardCHAPTERHistory of Rome1975

    While the Romans were advancing their frontiers from Apennines to Alps the Carthaginians were making an unexpected recovery from their recent disasters. After the suppression of the revolts in Africa, Hamilcar, whose influence was now paramount at Carthage, obtained a commission to extend the Punic dominions in Spain, by way of compensation for the territory lost to the Romans (237). The interest of the Carthaginians in the Iberian peninsula had …

  • Diocletian and Constantine

    M Cary, H H ScullardCHAPTERHistory of Rome1975

    Unlike the previous soldier-emperors from the Danubian area Diocletian had no outstanding gifts as a general, although a competent soldier, but he exhibited capacity, or at any rate energy, such as was rarely found among later Roman emperors. It soon became clear that he had pondered over the problems of the Empire and had plans ready to meet them. A new start must be made; no longer could one emperor sit at Rome and control the whole web of inte…

  • The ‘Year of the Four Emperors’

    M Cary, H H ScullardCHAPTERHistory of Rome1975

    The misgovernment of Nero’s later years did not bring about any sharp change of feeling in the provinces, where its effects were not immediately perceived. The people of Rome forgot its grudge against the emperor as soon as the traces of the great fire of 64 were removed. The Senate harboured resentment at the loss of many of its most prominent members, but so long as it was unsupported by public opinion or by military force it could make no over…

  • The Second Triumvirate

    M Cary, M J Cary et al.CHAPTERHistory of Rome1975

    The tyrannicides had planned the murder of Caesar well, but they had planned nothing more. Their calculation had gone no further than this, that the forcible removal of the dictator Caesar would have the same effect as the voluntary abdication of the dictator Sulla, and that on the release of the brake the machinery of senatorial government would automatically resume work. But the senators, before whose eyes Caesar had been killed, stampeded out …

  • The Roman Wars in Asia in the Second Century

    M Cary, H H ScullardCHAPTERHistory of Rome1975

    Until the second century B.C. Asia remained wholly outside the sphere of Roman politics. The eventual intrusion of the Republic into Asiatic affairs was, in no less degree than its intervention in European Greece, an unpremeditated adventure.

  • The Conquest of the Western Mediterranean

    M Cary, H H ScullardCHAPTERHistory of Rome1975

    Although the Second Punic War was fought by the Romans in defence of past conquests it brought them extensive new acquisitions, and finally established their supremacy in the western Mediterranean. At the same time their copious man-power and military efficiency led them, often somewhat reluctantly, to action in the eastern Mediterranean. The result was that in little more than half a century they were the dominant power throughout the whole Medi…

  • The Fall of the Restoration Government

    M Cary, H H ScullardCHAPTERHistory of Rome1975

    In the Restoration period that followed the dictatorship of Sulla the foremost need of the Roman Republic was to rest and recover from the convulsions of the previous ten years. The greatest danger of the moment lay in the possible recrudescence of the civil wars that had recently paralysed the senatorial government. In view of this peril the restored senatorial aristocracy was more than ever averse from military adventures abroad, with their con…

  • Marius and the New Roman Army

    M Cary, H H ScullardCHAPTERHistory of Rome1975

    After the death of Gaius Gracchus and the massacre of his partisans the senatorial aristocracy returned to power unopposed. In 120 a doubtful constitutional point was settled in its favour, when L. Opimius was prosecuted in a popular court by a tribune for putting citizens to death without a trial, but overawed the people into granting a sentence of absolution. His acquittal virtually legalised the Senate’s Emergency Decree and gave it confidence…

  • The ‘Five Good Emperors’. External Affairs

    M Cary, H H ScullardCHAPTERHistory of Rome1975

    The last notable extension of the Roman boundaries beyond the limits fixed by Augustus took place in the reign of the warrior-prince Trajan. Under his successors the frontiers underwent rectifications here and there, but the further additions to Roman territory were insignificant. The area of the Roman Empire in the middle of the second century may be estimated at about 1,700,000 square miles. Before looking in more detail at the various changes …

  • Roman Society in the Second Century

    M Cary, H H ScullardCHAPTERHistory of Rome1975

    The conquests of the Romans in the third and second centuries left as profound a mark on their private life as on their political institutions.

  • The Settlement of Augustus. Rome and Italy

    M Cary, H H ScullardCHAPTERHistory of Rome1975

    On his return to Italy in the summer of 29 Octavian enjoyed a personal ascendancy such as neither Sulla nor Caesar had ever possessed. He had the entire military strength of the Empire at his disposal; he came back with the prestige of a victor in a foreign war, with the odium that inevitably attaches to success in civil strife largely forgotten, and he brought with him the treasure of the Ptolemies, which not only enabled him to pay off the troo…