Appian’s Roman History: Empire and Civil War by Kathryn Welch (.PDF)
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Appian’s Roman History: Empire and Civil War by Kathryn Welch
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Overview: 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 its internal politics. We need to know him better.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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