THE ROMAN EMPIRE OF AMMIANUS
by Matthews, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0715622463
- ISBN 13
- 9780715622469
- Seller
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Duckworth Publishing. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1989. Hardcover. 0715622463 . Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. Light shelfwear to DJ. ; 624 pages; The surviving books of Ammianus Marcellinus, covering in detail twenty-five years of the authors adult lifetime (353-378), place him in the first rank of Classical historians. With their intense style and lively visual sense, their power and marvellous ability to portray character in action (as well as their occasional idiosyncrasy), the Res Gestae are essential reading for anyone concerned with the history of the later Roman Empire and with the survival of the Classical literary tradition in an age of cultural and religious innovation .
Synopsis
"First edition published 1989 by Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd."--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references (p. 554-571) and index.
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- Bookseller
- Ancient World Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27631
- Title
- THE ROMAN EMPIRE OF AMMIANUS
- Author
- Matthews, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0715622463
- ISBN 13
- 9780715622469
- Publisher
- Duckworth Publishing
- Place of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1989
- Keywords
- 0715622463, Ammianus Marcellinus, Roman History, Classical Greek & Roman, Rome, Late Antiquity, Res Gestae
- Bookseller catalogs
- Late Antiquity;
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