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The Historians of Ancient Rome: An Anthology of the Major Writings
Author: Ronald Mellor
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The Historians of Ancient Rome is the most comprehensive collection of ancient sources for Roman history available in a single English volume. After a general introduction on Roman historical writing, extensive passages from more than a dozen Greek and Roman historians and biographers trace the history of Rome over more than a thousand years from the citys foundation by Romulus in 753 B.C.E. (Livy) to Constantines edict of toleration for Christianity (313 C.E.) Selections include many of the high points of Romes climb to world domination the defeat of Hannibal the conquest of Greece and the eastern Mediterranean the defeat of the Catilinarian conspirators Caesars conquest of Gaul Antony and Cleopatra the establishment of the Empire by Caesar Augustus and the Roman Peace under Hadrian and long excepts from Tacitus record the horrors of the reigns of Tiberius and Nero. The book is intended both for undergraduate courses in Roman history and for the general reader interested in approaching the Romans through the original historical sources. Hence, excerpts of Polybius, Livy, and Tacitus are extensive enough to be read with pleasure as an exciting narrative. Now in its third edition, changes to this thoroughly revised volume include a new timeline, translations of several key inscriptions such as the Twelve Tables, and additional readings. This is a book which no student of Roman history should be without.
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The Historians of Ancient Rome is the most comprehensive collection of ancient sources for Roman history available in a single English volume. After a general introduction on Roman historical writing, extensive passages from more than a dozen Greek and Roman historians and biographers trace the history of Rome over more than a thousand years from the citys foundation by Romulus in 753 B.C.E. (Livy) to Constantines edict of toleration for Christianity (313 C.E.) Selections include many of the high points of Romes climb to world domination the defeat of Hannibal the conquest of Greece and the eastern Mediterranean the defeat of the Catilinarian conspirators Caesars conquest of Gaul Antony and Cleopatra the establishment of the Empire by Caesar Augustus and the Roman Peace under Hadrian and long excepts from Tacitus record the horrors of the reigns of Tiberius and Nero. The book is intended both for undergraduate courses in Roman history and for the general reader interested in approaching the Romans through the original historical sources. Hence, excerpts of Polybius, Livy, and Tacitus are extensive enough to be read with pleasure as an exciting narrative. Now in its third edition, changes to this thoroughly revised volume include a new timeline, translations of several key inscriptions such as the Twelve Tables, and additional readings. This is a book which no student of Roman history should be without.
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