Frontiers of the Roman Empire
Subtitle: A Social and Economic Study (Ancient Society and History)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: November 18, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780801857850
Subjects: Economic history; European history: BCE to c 500 CE; Social history; Literature - Classics / Criticism; History: World; Ancient Rome; Ancient - Rome; Anthropology - Cultural; History / Ancient / General
First sentence: One of the most romantic descriptions of Hadrian's Wall in the English language was written by Rudyard Kipling in 1904 in what was intended as a children's book, Puck of Pook's Hill, when he imagined what it was like for a Roman soldier arriving at the frontier.