Michael Grant's The Antonines: The Roman Empire in Transition PDF

By Michael Grant

ISBN-10: 0415107547

ISBN-13: 9780415107549

ISBN-10: 0415138140

ISBN-13: 9780415138147

The Antonines - Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Verus and Commodus - performed a very important half within the improvement of the Roman empire, controlling its large computer for part a century of its such a lot trying out interval. Edward Gibbon saw that the epoch of the Antonines, the 2d century A.D., was once the happiest interval the area had ever known.
In this lucid, authoritative survey, Michael supply re-examines Gibbon's assertion, and offers his personal magisterial account of the way the lives of the emperors and the artwork, literature, structure and total social situation lower than the Antonines represented an `age of transition'. The Antonines is key examining for somebody who's drawn to historic background, in addition to for all scholars and academics of the subject.

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