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Appian
ISBN: 9780140445091
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Edition: New edition
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Appian's Civil Wars offers a masterly account of the turbulent epoch from the time of Tiberius Gracchus (133 BC) to the tremendous conflicts which followed the murder of Julius Caesar. For the events between 133 and 70 BC he is the only surviving continuous narrative source. The subsequent books vividly describe Catiline's conspiracy…
Taken from Appian's Roman History, the five books collected here form the sole surviving continuous historical narrative of the era between 133-35 BC - a time of anarchy and instability for the Roman Empire. A masterly account of a turbulent epoch, they describe the Catiline conspiracy; the rise and fall of the First Triumvirate; the murder of Julius Caesar; the formation of the Second Triumvirate by Antonius, Octavian, and Lepidus; and brutal civil war. A compelling depiction of the decline of the Roman state into brutality and violence, The Civil Wars portrays political discontent, selfishness and the struggle for power - a struggle that was to culminate in a titanic battle for mastery over the Roman Empire, and the defeat of Antony and Cleopatra by Octavian in 31 BC
| ISBN | 0140445099 | | DEWEY edition | DC20 | | ISBN13 | 9780140445091
(What's this?) | | Pages | 480 | | Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd | | Volumes | 1 | | Imprint | Penguin Classics | | Weight (grammes) | 330 | | Format | Paperback | | Published in | London | | Publication date | 27 Jun 1996 | | Series editor | Ingham, Patricia | | Non-book description | xliii, 435 p. : | | Series title | Penguin Classics S. | | Translator | John M. Carter | | Height (mm) | 198 | | Writer of introduction | Carter, John | | Width (mm) | 129 | | Library of Congress | DG254.A671 | | Spine width (mm) | 21 | | DEWEY | 937.05 | | Academic level | General |
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