The Rise of Rome: Books One to Five: Bks. 1-5 (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

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9780192822963: The Rise of Rome: Books One to Five: Bks. 1-5 (Oxford World's Classics)
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ISBN 10: 0192822969 ISBN 13: 9780192822963
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks, 1998

Synopsis

`the fates ordained the founding of this great city and the beginning of the world's mightiest empire, second only to the power of the gods' Romulus and Remus, the rape of Lucretia, Horatius at the bridge, the saga of Coriolanus, Cincinnatus called from his farm to save the state - these and many more are stories which, immortalised by Livy in his history of early Rome, have become part of our cultural heritage. The historian's huge work, written between 20 BC and AD 17, ran to 12 books, beginning with Rome's founding in 753 BC and coming down to Livy's own lifetime (9 BC). Books 1-5 cover the period from Rome's beginnings to her first great foreign conquest, the capture of the Etruscan city of Veii and, a few years later, to her first major defeat, the sack of the city by the Gauls in 390 BC.

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T. J. Luce is Kennedy Professor of Latin Emeritus at Princeton University.

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Publisher
Oxford Paperbacks
Publication date
1998
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0192822969
ISBN 13 
9780192822963
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
416
Editor
Luce T. J.

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