BASC70274 - The Civil Wars of Rome

Course Description

Instructor: Zoe Eisenman.   Writing during the Golden Age of the Antonines (145-165 AD), the Greek lawyer and historian Appian was trying to uncover for his contemporaries the factors that had made Rome the most durable imperial power in history. Appian’s five books on the Roman Civil Wars (133-35 BC) are the only surviving continuous historical account of this period that remains from Antiquity. By telling the story of the Civil Wars, beginning with the conflict of Marius and Sulla and ending with the triumph of Augustus over Antony, Appian explores how the nation that had been victorious over all the other peoples of the Mediterranean had to face and overcome their most dangerous enemy: themselves. Course code: BASC70274 History (There is no class July 3)

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Reading List

Appian The Civil Wars, trans. John Carter, Penguin Classics.
ISBN 978-0140445091