Appian's Roman History: Empire and Civil War

by Kathryn Welch

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1910589004
• ISBN13: 9781910589007
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Classical Press of Wales
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.3"