Roman history
Appian; edited and translated by Brian McGing
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- E-Book
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- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2019
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- Summary:
- Appian (ca. AD 95-161) is a principal source for the history of the Roman Republic. His theme is the process by which Rome achieved her contemporary prosperity, and his method is to trace in individual books the story of each nation's wars with Rome up through her own civil wars. This Loeb edition replaces the original by Horace White (1912-13). Appian (Appianus) is among our principal sources for the history of the Roman Republic, particularly in the second and first 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.
- Table of Contents:
- v. I.
- v. II.
- v. III.
- v. IV. Civil wars, books 1-2.
- v.V. Civil wars, books 3-4.
- v.VI. Civil wars, book 5. Fragments.
- Author/Creator:
- Appianus, of Alexandria , author
- Contributors:
- McGing, B. C. , editor, translator
- Languages:
- English
Greek, Ancient (to 1453) - Language Notes:
- Text in Greek with English translation on facing pages.
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- Print version: Roman history [by Appianus, of Alexandria] (Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2019 — ISBN 9780674996472(v.1); ISBN 9780674996489(v.2); ISBN 9780674997264(v.3); ISBN 9780674990067(v.4))Print version: Roman history [by Appianus, of Alexandria] (Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2019-2020 — ISBN 9780674996472(v.1); ISBN 9780674996489(v.2); ISBN 9780674997264(v.3); ISBN 9780674997295(v.4); ISBN 9780674997301(v.5); ISBN 9780674997318(v.6))
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- Description based on print version record.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Digital Characteristics:
- text file
- Call Numbers:
- PA3612 .A675 2014beb
- ISBNs:
- 9780674996472 (v. 1, print version) [Invalid]
9780674996489 (v. 2, print version) [Invalid]
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9780674990067 (v. 4, print version) [Invalid]
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9780674997318 (v. 6, print version) [Invalid] - OCLC Numbers:
- 1129300715
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- [Unknown Type]: hup0001102