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Appian's Roman History: Empire and Civil War
Dr Kathryn Welch
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Description for Appian's Roman History: Empire and Civil War
Hardcover. This book studies both what Appian had to say and how he said it; and engages in a dialogue about the value of Appian's text as a source of history, the relationship between that history and his own times, and the impact on his narrative of the author's own opinions. Editor(s): Welch, Kathryn. Num Pages: 330 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBAH; HBLA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 241 x 24. Weight in Grams: 860.
Appian of Alexandria lived in the early-to-mid second century AD, a time when the pax Romana flourished. His Roman History traced, through a series of ethnographic histories, the growth of Roman power throughout Italy and the Mediterranean World. But Appian also told the story of the civil wars which beset Rome from the time of Tiberius Gracchus to the death of Sextus Pompeius Magnus. The standing of his work in modern times is paradoxical. Consigned to the third rank by nineteenth-century historiographers, and poorly served by translators, Appian's Roman History profoundly shapes our knowledge of Republican Rome, its empire and ... Read more
Appian of Alexandria lived in the early-to-mid second century AD, a time when the pax Romana flourished. His Roman History traced, through a series of ethnographic histories, the growth of Roman power throughout Italy and the Mediterranean World. But Appian also told the story of the civil wars which beset Rome from the time of Tiberius Gracchus to the death of Sextus Pompeius Magnus. The standing of his work in modern times is paradoxical. Consigned to the third rank by nineteenth-century historiographers, and poorly served by translators, Appian's Roman History profoundly shapes our knowledge of Republican Rome, its empire and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The Classical Press of Wales
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
330
Place of Publication
Swansea, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781910589007
SKU
V9781910589007
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About Dr Kathryn Welch
Kathryn Welch is an honorary Associate Professor in Ancient History at the University of Sydney. For the Classical Press of Wales she has co-edited two previous works with Anton Powell, Julius Caesar as Artful Reporter (1998) and Sextus Pompeius (2002), as well as Roman Crossings with T. W. Hillard. She has also published numerous articles on late Republican and Triumviral ... Read more
Reviews for Appian's Roman History: Empire and Civil War
No serious reader of Appian, and in fact no serious student of the Roman republic, will be in a position to overlook this volume.
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