Appian: Roman History - The Civil Wars (Books 1-3.26) [3] 0674990056, 9780674990050

Appian (Appianus) was a Greek official of Alexandria. He saw the Jewish rebellion of 116 CE, and later became a Roman ci

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Appian: Roman History - The Civil Wars (Books 1-3.26) [3]
 0674990056, 9780674990050

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citizen

and advocate and received the

rank of he held

eques (Knight). In his older years a He died

the

reign

procuratorship. of Antoninus Pius

emperor of the the

A. D.I

38-161.

Honest admirer

Roman empire though

institutions

of the

republic,

he

'common'

dialect,

wrote,

during

who was ignorant of

earlier in

Roman

the

simple 24 books of 'Roman

in fact conquests, from the beginning to the times of Trajan (emperor A. 0.98-1 1 7), arranged according to races. have fragments of books aftairs',

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I-V, and of VIII and IX;

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have lost

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and XVIII-XXIV; books VI-VII and XI-XVII are complete, and are valuable records of military history.

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