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ROME, THE GREEK WORLD, AND THE EAST Volume I: the Roman Republic and the
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ROME, THE GREEK WORLD, AND THE EAST Volume I: the Roman Republic and the Augustan Revolution Softcover - 2002

by Millar, Fergus; Hannah M. Cotton & Guy M. Rogers (Eds. )

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Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.A.: University of North Carolina Press. Very Good+. 2002. Softcover. 0807849901 . Very light shelfwear. Spine slightly sunned. ; Xxii, 383pp, maps. ; Studies in the History of Greece and Rome; Vol. 1; 383 pages; Opening this collection of sixteen essays is a new contribution by Millar in which he defends the continuing significance of the study of Classics and argues for expanding the definition of what constitutes that field. In this volume he also questions the dominant scholarly interpretation of politics in the Roman Republic, arguing that the Roman people, not the Senate, were the sovereign power in Republican Rome. In so doing he sheds new light on the establishment of a new regime by the first Roman emperor, Caesar Augustus. .
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  • Title ROME, THE GREEK WORLD, AND THE EAST Volume I: the Roman Republic and the Augustan Revolution
  • Author Millar, Fergus; Hannah M. Cotton & Guy M. Rogers (Eds. )
  • Binding Softcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Very Good+
  • Pages 416
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.A.
  • Date 2002
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 32675
  • ISBN 9780807849903 / 0807849901
  • Weight 1.32 lbs (0.60 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.88 x 6.62 x 0.97 in (22.56 x 16.81 x 2.46 cm)
  • Reading level 1600
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
    • Cultural Region: Greece
    • Cultural Region: Italy
    • Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001027500
  • Dewey Decimal Code 938

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Almost exactly forty years ago, I was in my last term at a Scottish public school on the shores of the Firth of Forth, where the climate would have made that of Durham, by comparison, seem positively tropical, and the boys were prevented from freezing only by being permanently occupied in playing rugby football.

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  • Choice, 11/01/2002, Page 528

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