The Roman Era: The British Isles
Subtitle: 55 BC-AD 410 (Short Oxford History of the British Isles)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: March 11, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780198731948
Subjects: Classical Greek & Roman archaeology; Roman Britain; History - General History; History: World; British Isles; Ancient - General; Europe - Great Britain - General; History / Great Britain; Designed / suitable for A & AS Level; Antiquities, Roman; Great Britain; History; Roman period, 55 B.C.-449 A.D; Romans
First sentence: The Britain that Julius Caesar so famously invaded in 55 and 54 BC was for most Romans, and other Mediterranean peoples, dimly known, and certainly a place of no consequence: it lay much too far beyond the pale of the civilized Graeco-Roman world for that.