| The Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars AD 226-363: A Documentary History Revised Edition Contributor(s): Dodgeon, Michael H. (Editor), Lieu, Samuel N. C. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415103177 ISBN-13: 9780415103176 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $50.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1993 Annotation: The book is a uniquely valuable resource for scholars and students interested in a period of Roman history that is attracting increased attention. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Ancient - General |
| Dewey: 937.08 |
| Lexile Measure: 1400 |
| Physical Information: 1.11" H x 5.53" W x 8.49" (1.27 lbs) 460 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The crisis of the third century saw Rome not only embroiled in contests of succeeding short-lived Emperors, but assailed by an increasing variety of hostile peoples from outside its frontiers. Owing to the complex racial interplay of this period, the sources for its history have to be compiled from a wide variety of sources. The least adequate are those in Latin, the imperial lives of the Historia Augusta . These have to be supplemented by the Greek chronicles of Zosimus and John Malalas of Antioch, as well as the Armenian history of Moses of Chorene, the Arabic History of the Arabs of Al-Tabari, as well as inscriptions in Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Syrian and other languages. This volume collects these diverse sources for the first time in English translation, and will be a uniquely valuable resource for scholars working on a period of Roman history that is attracting increasing attention. |