Late Antiquity
Subtitle: A Guide to the Postclassical World (Harvard University Press Reference Library)
Contributors: G. W. Bowersock (Editor); Peter Brown (Editor)
Publisher: Belknap Press
Published: November 18, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 802
ISBN-13: 9780674511736
Subjects: World history: BCE to c 500 CE; World history: c 500 to C 1500; History - General History; Ancient World History; History; History: World; Ancient - General; History / Medieval; Reference; Classical dictionaries
First sentence: In his poem on the war against Count Gildo in North Africa, the late 4th century Latin poet Claudian depicts Roma, the personification of the city, as aged and unkempt, feeble her voice, slow her step, her eyes deep buried.