Roman Antiquities, Volume II by Dionysius of Halicarnassus, ... - 9780674993822

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Roman Antiquities, Volume IIBooks 34\nAuthor(s): Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Earnest Cary\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Harvard University Press, United States\nImprint: Harvard University Press\nISBN-13: 9780674993822, 978-0674993822\nSynopsis\nRoman history for a Greek audience.\n\nDionysius of Halicarnassus was born before 53 BC and went to Italy before 29 BC. He taught rhetoric in Rome while studying the Latin language, collecting material for a history of Rome, and writing. His Roman Antiquities began to appear in 7 BC.\n\nDionysius states that his objects in writing history were to please lovers of noble deeds and to repay the benefits he had enjoyed in Rome. But he wrote also to reconcile Greeks to Roman rule. Of the twenty books of Roman Antiquities (from the earliest times to 264 BC) we have the first nine complete; most of Books 10 and 11; and later extracts and an epitome of the whole. Dionysius studied the best available literary sources (mainly annalistic and .