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The Civil Wars | 
 enlarge | Author: Appian
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 133842
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Pages: 480
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Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.1 x 0.6
ISBN: 0140445099
Dewey Decimal Number: 937.05
EAN: 9780140445091
ASIN: 0140445099
Publication Date: June 30, 2005
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Appian's Civil Wars July 19, 2008
D. Evans
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Appian's account of the Roman Civil Wars seems to be a much ignored text. He wasn't a witness to the events like Caesar, and he wasn't a great biographical writer like Plutarch. Yet his work stands as the only unbroken account of the years 133 to 70 BC, making his history a rather special one.
The book doesn't end in 70 BC, but rather it covers everything to the defeat of Sextus Pompeius, Pompey Magnus's son. Along the way Appian describes the revolt of Spartacus, the Catiline conspiracy, the rise and fall of the First Triumvirate, Julius Caesar's crossing of the Rubicon, and the rise of the Second Triumvirate and the terrible proscriptions that followed.
Appian isn't the best writer of the Classical World, but his book is still worth a read. John Carter's translation is good, and he also provides an introduction where he re-evaluates Appian's work as an 'impressive conception'.
If you have an interest in those pivotal years that ended with the death of the Republic, then this book is a must read. It can be difficult to get into but if you persist you will be rewarded. A thoroughly impressive work of ancient scholarship.
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