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Title: The Roman Empire from Severus to Constantine by Pat Southern ISBN: 0-415-23944-3 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 December, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $31.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Crisis in the 3d Century
Comment: Having enjoyed the author's LATE ROMAN ARMY, I was pleasantly surprised to discover this volume on a recent visit to Rome. Of course any author benefits when writing about the likes of Diocletian, Septimus Severus and Constantine the Great. Southern's highly readable text, buttressed with extensive illuminating notes and a sound examination of the sources, brings the period alive. I find Southern's writing to be clear and understandable ---very well-crafted. I found the author's well-developed bibliography particularly helpful. Passable maps, interesting illustrations and the obligatory, colossal head of Constantine accompany the text as well as a number of numismatological sketches of the era's coinage. Chester Starr in his brief but excellent THE ROMAN EMPIRE delineates this time period as 'The First Test' ---a massive turning point for the empire. Southern does a masterful job examining the evolving threats to the empire including themes such as depopulation, barbarization, succession, usurpation. I also liked her analysis of the mobile, multiethnic war bands of the era as well as her defense of the Emperor Gallienus (not too surprising as she co-authored THE ROMAN CAVALRY). I thoroughly enjoyed this work, in all three readings. I recommend following this up with Birley's SEVERUS and William's DIOCLETIAN. The old standby, AMMIANUS MARCELLINUS, is still available in an affordable Penguin abridgment.
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Title: Septimius Severus (Roman Imperial Biographies) by Anthony Birley, Anthony R. Birley ISBN: 0415165911 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: May, 1999 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: The Roman Empire by C. M. Wells ISBN: 0674777700 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: October, 1995 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Chronicle of the Roman Emperors: The Reign-By-Reign Record of the Rulers of Imperial Rome by Chris Scarre ISBN: 0500050775 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: October, 1995 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: The Battle That Stopped Rome: Emperor Augustus, Arminius, and the Slaughter of the Legions in the Teutoburg Forest by Peter S. Wells ISBN: 0393020282 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi ISBN: 081297106X Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks Pub. Date: 30 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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