The Fall of the Roman Republic
Roman History, Books 36-40
$33.67
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
1 May 2024
Summary
Books 36-40 of the Roman History by Cassius Dio (born ca. 163 CE), covers 69-50 BCE, the last twenty years before the Roman Republic collapsed in a long series of civil wars, leading to the monarchy of the emperors. Although Dio’s history was written over 250 years later, it provides the fullest surviving account of this crucial period in Roman history and is a key source of information on many of the chief developments. Dio fashions his account of these years to foreshadow the coming civil w…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780198822882 |
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| ISBN-10: | 019882288X |
| Author: | Cassius Dio, Robin Waterfield, John Rich |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2024 |
| Weight: | 242g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 125mm x 15mm |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
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About The Author
Cassius Dio
Robin Waterfield is an independent scholar and translator, and a former university lecturer, now living in southern Greece. In addition to over thirty volumes of translations of ancient Greek, he is the author of numerous books, ranging from children’s fiction to Greek history.
John Rich taught throughout his career at the University of Nottingham. He is now Emeritus Professor at Nottingham and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bristol. He has published widely on Roman history and historiography, with particular focuses on Roman war and imperialism, the reign of Augustus, and the Roman histories of Appian and Cassius Dio.
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