| Description |
1 online resource (353 p.) |
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Oxford World's Classics Series |
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Oxford World's Classics Series
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| Contents |
Cover -- OWC series page -- The Fall of the Roman Republic: Roman History, Books Thirty-Six to Forty -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Sources -- Subject Matter and Arrangement -- Speech -- Cassius Dio and the Fall of the Roman Republic -- Translator's Note -- Select Bibliography -- Structure -- A Chronology of Events -- Maps -- The Fall of the Roman Republic: Roman History, Books Thirty-Six to Forty -- Book Thirty-Six -- Book Thirty-Seven -- Book Thirty-Eight -- Book Thirty-Nine -- Book Forty -- Appendix: Roman Names -- Money and Measures of Distance -- Calendar |
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Explanatory Notes -- Glossary -- Index of Proper Names -- End add |
| Summary |
This book presents the first English translation to appear for over a hundred years of a key text, Books 36-40 of Cassius Dio's Roman History, which is not only the fullest surviving account of the last twenty years before the Roman Republic collapsed (69-50 BCE) but is also a vivid and compelling historical narrative |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Cassius Dio Cocceianus. Roman history. Book 36-40
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Ancient.
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HISTORY.
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS.
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Essays.
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Rome -- History -- Republic, 265-30 B.C.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Waterfield, Robin
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Rich, John
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| ISBN |
9780192555656 |
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0192555650 |
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