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228 pages : illustrations, maps. ; 22 cm |
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Introduction: Desperately foreign.--The rediscovery of Crete.-- Lost: the Trojan war.--Silver tongue.--Thucydides the moralist.--Socrates and Athens.--Plato and practical politics.--Diogenes the cynic.--Etruscheria.--The Etruscans and early Rome; new discoveries and ancient controversies.--The silent women of Rome.--The Emperor Diocletian.--Manpower and the fall of Rome.- -Aulus Kapreilius Timotheus, slave trader.--Christian beginnings; three views of historiography.--The year one.--Bibliographical notes (p. 215-220) |
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History, Ancient.
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History, Ancient. |
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