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		Ammianus and the Historia Augusta
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		Sir Ronald Syme
		Oxford University Press 2001 249 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0198143443
		Published Price £14.99		Our Price £11.99
	Forgery or not, the collection of biographies of emperors and usurpers from Hadrian to Numerianus (117 to 284 CE) known as the Historia Augusta has exercised classical scholars for centuries and raises intriguing questions of authorial motive and historiography. Symes brings peerless scholarship in Roman history and prosography to bear on the bogus Historia and the single 'artful impostor' who wrote it, assessing the history in relation to that of Ammianus Marcellinus and other writers such as Jerome and Marius Maximus and identifying contemporary events and people named in the Historia Augusta. (1968)
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		Ptolemaic Alexandria
		(Three volumes)		Sandpiper Editions
		PM Fraser
		Oxford University Press 2001 2133 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0198142781
		Published Price £120.00		Our Price £96.00
	This account of Alexandrian life in the Ptolemaic period remains unsurpassed in the scope of its sources and the depth of detail in which Fraser examines the first 300 years of Alexander the Great's most successful city. Part I provides a framework for the study of Alexandrian cultural achievement and covers topics ranging from the topography of the city and the character of its population to the 'manufactured' religious cult of Serapis. Part II comprises a masterful survey of every branch of Alexandrian scientific and creative writing and, in particular, the poetry of Callimachus. An Epilogue discusses the transition to Roman dominion. [1972]
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