Name: The Loeb Classical Library: Roman History, Volume II
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The Loeb Classical Library: Roman History, Volume II

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The Loeb Classical Library: Roman History, Volume IIRomes foreign wars, nation by nation. Appian (Appianus) is among our principal sources for the history of the Roman Republic, particularly in the second and first centuries BC, and sometimes our only source, as for the Third Punic War and the destruction of Carthage. Born circa AD 95, Appian was an Alexandrian official at ease in the highest political and literary circles who later became a Roman citizen and advocate. He apparently received equestrian

Complete with the original Greek on facing pages

Mary Beard and John Henderson both teach Classics at the University of Cambridge

the ways in which they competed with and were influenced by one another

was not only gifted with intellectual virtuosity

it is at the same time a poem of great power and intensity

is romantically involved with two men

incorporating the latest scholarship on the text of Lucretius

He covers in turn the Greek novels of this period

Να δυναμώνει και να χαμηλώνει

Μια άλλη κρατούμενη θα σταθεί στο πλευρό της στις κακουχίες

who flees his city after its fall

It is Livy's best and most dramatic book