Fighting for Rome
Subtitle: Poets and Caesars, History and Civil War
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 2, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 359
ISBN-13: 9780521028660
Subjects: European history: BCE to c 500 CE; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language; Ancient Rome; General; Roman Literature; Historiography; History; Language Arts & Disciplines / General; Latin literature--History and criticism; Literary Collections / Ancient, Classical & Medieval; Literary Criticism : Roman Literature; Epic poetry, Latin; History and criticism; Latin literature; Literature and history; Rome
First sentence: This first chapter introduces a text written in gritty, no-nonsense Greek by a Hellenic Egyptian in the second century CE, as part of his comprehensive coverage of history seen as a series of Roman conquests that progressively interlinked regions of the known world, until Rome eventually incorporated Egypt into the world state of the Roman Empire.