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Appian

 
9780674996472: Roman History (Loeb Classical Library, Band 2)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 067499647X ISBN 13: 9780674996472
Verlag: Harvard University Press, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

Appian (Appianus) is among our principal sources for the history of the Roman Republic, particularly in the 2nd and 1st centuries BC, and sometimes our only source, as for the Third Punic War and the destruction of Carthage. Born circa AD 95, Appian was an Alexandrian official at ease in the highest political and literary circles who later became a Roman citizen and advocate. He died during the reign of Antoninus Pius (emperor 138–161).

Appian’s theme is the process by which the Roman Empire achieved its contemporary prosperity, and his unique method is to trace in individual books the story of each nation’s wars with Rome up through her own civil wars. Although this triumph of “harmony and monarchy” was achieved through characteristic Roman virtues, Appian is unusually objective about Rome’s shortcomings along the way.

Of the work’s original 24 books, only the Preface and Books 6–9 and 11–17 are preserved complete or nearly so: those on the Spanish, Hannibalic, African, Illyrian, Syrian, and Mithridatic wars, and five books on the civil wars.

This edition of Appian replaces the original Loeb edition by Horace White and provides additional fragments, along with his letter to Fronto.

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Brian McGing is Regius Professor of Greek, Emeritus, at Trinity College Dublin.

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Verlag
Harvard University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
067499647X
ISBN 13 
9780674996472
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
454
Herausgeber
Mcging Brian
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