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Appian: Wars of the Romans in Iberia (Classical Texts) (Classical Texts)
Appian Wars of the Romans in Iberia - Classical Texts Author:J. S. Richardson Appian wrote his Roman History in the second century AD as a series of books arranged geographically to chronicle the rise of the Roman empire. His Iberike, of which this is the first translation with historical commentary in English, deals with the Romans' wars in the Iberian peninsula from the third to the first centuries BC. It is the only co... more »ntinuous source for much of the history of this crucial period in one of the earliest regions of Rome's imperial expansion and so fills in the gap made by the loss of Livy's later books. He describes the major campaigns of the conquest from the defeat of the Carthaginians by Scipio Africanus, the wars against the Celtiberians, the war against the Lusitanians under Virathus and the siege of Numantia. But its value is more that of a mere chronicler of otherwise obscure events, he was an historian who deserves to be studied in his own right.« less