서양고대세계사
M.I. Rostovtzeff (지은이),지동식 (옮긴이)고려대학교출판부1990-03-01
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목차
1. 역사
2. 고대사
3. 희랍과 에게해의 왕국
4. 아나톨리아의 희랍
5. 스파르타
6. 아테네와 앗티카
7. 희랍문명
8. 페르시아 전쟁
9. 아테네 제국
10. 펠로폰네소스 전쟁
11. 희랍문명과 사회발전
12. 기원전 4세기의 희랍
13. 마케도니아 및 페르시아와의 전쟁
14. 희랍문명
15. 알렉산더 이후의 희랍세계
저자 및 역자소개
M.I. Rostovtzeff (지은이)
저자파일
신간알리미 신청
<서양고대세계사>
최근작 : <서양고대세계사>
지동식 (옮긴이)
저자파일
신간알리미 신청
<서양고대세계사>
최근작 : <서양고대와 중세의 사회>,<서양 고대와 중세의 사회>,<로마제국은 왜 멸망했는가> … 총 6종 (모두보기)
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책소개
이 책《서양고대세계사》는 러시아의 석학 M.I.Rostovtzeff 의 Greece(Oxford University, 1968)와 Rome(Oxford University,1960)을 합본하여 완역한 것이다. 저자는 러시아혁명 직후에 망명하여 옥스퍼드와 위스콘신 그리고 예일에서 고대사를 강의하는 한편 널리 알려진 로마제국 사회경제사와 헬레니즘시대 사회경제사를 저술했다. 이 두 저서의 기본적인 사관이 바로 이 역서에 반영되고 있다. 저자는 조국 러시아에서 스스로 관찰하고 경험한 것을 고대사에 적용시켜, 고대의 정치·사회·경제·문화를 예리하게 분석하고 있다
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Rostovtzeff
The Social and Economic History of the Roman Empire
Rostovtzeff was notable for his theories, notably, of the cause of the collapse of the Roman Empire, which he expounded in detail in his magisterial The Social and Economic History of the Roman Empire (1926). Scarred by his experience of fleeing from the Russian Revolution, he attributed the collapse of the Roman Empire to an alliance between the rural proletariat and the military in the third century A.D. Despite not being a Marxist himself, Rostovtzeff used terms such as proletariat, bourgeoisie and capitalism freely in his work and the importation of those terms into a description of the ancient world, where they did not necessarily apply, caused criticism.[7]
Rostovtzeff's theory was quickly understood as one based on the author's own experiences and equally quickly rejected by the academic community. Bowersock later described the book as "the marriage of pre-1918 scholarly training and taste with post-1918 personal experience and reflection." At the same time, however, the detailed scholarship involved in the production of the work impressed his contemporaries and he was one of the first to merge archaeological evidence with literary sources.
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Olivier Clementin
5.0 out of 5 stars Class struggle in the Roman Empire
Reviewed in the United States on December 17, 2004
Rostovtzeff's book covers the economy of the Roman Empire between the First Century B.C. and the reforms of Diocletian in 284. His main thesis is that the history of the Empire is essentially a three-way struggle between the Senatorial upper classes, the city bourgeoisie (knights) and the proletariate.
After a brief account of the Social War and of the end of the Republic, the first part of the book is a detailed description of the economic environment in each province of the Empire under the Principate. He shows how the Emperors tried to develop the economy by supporting the city bourgeoisie against the Senatorial class, which was slaughtered in the various civil wars, and had almost totally disappeared at the end of the Antonine dynasty.
The second part, the most interesting in my view, is an account of the Crisis of the Third Century. According to the author, the failure of the bourgeoisie to assume the military defense of the Empire led to the development of an army of peasants who hated the city elites, and who took advantage of the political instability to establish a military dictatorship. The Emperors were only tools in the hands of that proletarian army and were almost always assassinated after a few years. Ever heavier taxes were necessary to pay the soldiers. Taxes were levied inefficiently and arbitrarily on the city elites (when they were not massacred in civil wars), which killed individual enterprise and eventually led to a major economic decline, and more taxes. Rostovtzeff concludes that the crisis was in fact a proletarian revolution, and he makes an interesting parallel between a letter written in Egypt in the Third Century and letters he's receiving from the Soviet Union to illustrate the point (the book was written in 1926).
The history ends with Diocletian, who stabilized the military dictatorship in order to save the Empire politically, instead of returning to the earlier policy of supporting the cities. That merely postponed the end of the Empire for two centuries. For the later period, AHM Jones' Later Roman Empire is recommended.
The reasons for the economic decline of the Ancient World remain an historical puzzle (see for exampleThe End of the Past by Aldo Schiavone), and Rostovtzeff does not give any definitive answer, but his arguments are very interesting, and the process by which a sophisticated society became a system of generalized slavery in which everyone was worse off is rather disturbing.
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Glenn McDorman
5.0 out of 5 stars A Masterpiece
Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2003
In short, this book is a masterpiece of historical scholarship. Rostovtzeff describes every aspect of socioeconomic life throughout Roman civilization from the Julio-Claudians through Diocletian in a wonderful narrative. It is hard to imagine that a book primarily concerned with how people feed and clothe themselves can be an engrossing page-turner, but this book is. If you are at all interested in the history of real people, you must read this book.
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A good read, BUT a word of caution from an authority on Roman history and culture : "Today there is probably not one reputable historian who would accept the basic thesis of Rostovtzeff's book. Few, however, would question the greatness of his work" G. W. Bowersock, Daedalus , Vol. 103, No. 1, 1974 (see JSTOR). And another, extracted from a 10-page review : "Rostovtzeff was [...] what might be called an 'unhappy Marxian' [and his work] is probably the most extreme interpretation of the kind among all first-rate works about antiquity." S. Dow, The American Historical Review , Vol. 65, No. 3, 1960 (see JSTOR). (less)
