The Romans / R.H. Barrow
1949, First Edition. Harmondsworth, Middlesex : Penguin Books. Very good paperback copy; edges slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean. Item #444511
Physical description; 224 pages : map ; 18 cm. Notes; Includes index. Contents; 1. What manner of men? ; The old ways -- 2. Kings, Republic, Empire ; From the Seven Hills to the Roman Orb ; From City-state to Republic in Ruins -- 3. The New Ways and the old ; Cicero -- 4. Restoration and the Ausustan Principate -- Vergil [Virgil?] and Horace and Livy ; The First and Second centuries A.D. -- 5. What the Romans wrote about -- 6. The Roman practical genius -- 7. The Roman Attitude to Religion and Philosophy -- 8. The age of crisis and rescue : Diocletian and Constantine -- 9. Christianity and the Roman Empire -- 10. The Fifth century -- 11. Roman Law. Subjects; Rome Civilization. Civilization. Romans. Roman Empire History. Latin literature. Penguin books (series). Rome Civilization. Rome Civilisation.
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