Rome the Greek World, and the East: Volume 1
Subtitle: The Roman Republic and the Augustan Revolution
Contributors: Hannah M. Cotton (Editor); Guy M. Rogers (Editor)
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: December 2, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780807849903
Subjects: European history: BCE to c 500 CE; Greece; Ancient - Rome; History; History - General History; Rome; History: World; Ancient Greece; Ancient Rome; Essays; History / Ancient / General; History / Ancient / Rome; History : Essays; Ancient - Greece; Civilization
First sentence: Almost exactly forty years ago, I was in my last term at a Scottish public school on the shores of the Firth of Forth, where the climate would have made that of Durham, by comparison, seem positively tropical, and the boys were prevented from freezing only by being permanently occupied in playing rugby football.