The Foreign Wars: Roman History Kindle Edition

Contents of this volumeAppian of Alexandria pag. 4Appian's Preface pag. 7Book I Concerning the Kings (fragments) pag. 8Book II Concerning Italy (fragments) pag. 10Book III The Samnite History (fragments) pag. 12Book IV The Gallic History (fragments) pag. 15Book V Of Sicily and the other Islands (fragments) pag. 16Book VI - The Spanish Wars pag. 18Book VII The Hannibalic War pag. 48Book VIII Part I. The Punic Wars pag. 65 Part II. Numidian affairs (fragments) pag. 111Book IX Macedonian affairs (fragments) pag. 112Book X The Illyrian Wars pag. 119Book XI The Syrian Wars pag. 128Book XII The Mithridatic Wars pag. 154Trajan's Campaigns 199Appian of Alexandria (c. AD 95 – c. AD 165) was a Greek historian with Roman citizenship who prospered during the reigns of Emperors of Rome Trajan, Hadrian, and Antoninus Pius.His principal surviving work (known in Latin as Historia Romana) was written in Greek in 24 books, before 165. This work ives an account of various peoples and countries from the earliest times down to their incorporation into the Roman Empire, and survives in complete books and considerable fragments. The work, very valuable, especially for the period of the civil wars, is published here in two volumes, distinguishing foreign wars books (1 - 12) and civil warsbooks (13–17)."The Foreign Wars" includes an ethnographic style history recounting the various military conflicts against a foreign enemy in Roman history, until the time of Appian."The Civil Wars" concern mainly the end of the Roman Republic and take a conflict-based view and approach to history. Despite the lack of cited sources for his works, these books of the Roman History are the only extant comprehensive description of these momentous decades of Roman history. Read more