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Wars of the Romans in Iberia / Appian ; edited with an introduction, translation & commentary by J.S. Richardson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Appianus, of Alexandria, author.
- Series:
- Aris & Phillips classical texts.
- Liverpool scholarship online.
- Aris & Phillips classical texts
- Liverpool scholarship online
- Standardized Title:
- Iberica
- Language:
- English
- Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
- Subjects (All):
- Celtiberi--History--Early works to 1800.
- Celtiberi.
- Spain--History--Roman period, 218 B.C.-414 A.D--Early works to 1800.
- Spain.
- Appianus, of Alexandria. Iberica.
- Appianus.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (193 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.
- Language Note:
- Parallel Greek text and English translation, with English introduction and notes.
- Summary:
- Appian wrote his Roman history in the second century AD as a series of books arranged geographically to chronicle the rise of the Roman Empire. His Iberike, of which this is the first translation with historical commentary in English, deals with the Romans' wars in the Iberian peninsula from the third to the first centuries BC. It is the only continuous source for much of the history of this crucial period in one of the earliest regions of Rome's imperial expansion, and so fills in the gap made by the loss of Livy's later books. He describes the major campaigns of the conquest from the defeat of the Carthaginians by Scipio Africanus, the wars against the Celtiberians, the war against the Lusitanians under Viriathus and the siege of Numantia. The value of the text is not merely as a chronicle of otherwise obscure events, Appian was an historian who deserves to be studied in his own right.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 22, 2021).
- Previously issued in print: Oxford: Aris & Phillips, 2000.
- Contains:
- Appianus, of Alexandria. Iberica.
- Appianus, of Alexandria. Iberica. English.
- ISBN:
- 1-80034-288-8
- 1-80034-632-8
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