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Availability:In StockContributor:Richard AlstonSeries:Ancient Warfare and CivilizationPublish date:2017-05-01Pages:408
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780190663469ISBN-10:190663464UPC:9780190663469Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Ancient, MilitaryBook Topic:Rome, Ancient, Revolutions & Wars of IndependenceSize:9.20 x 6.20 x 0.80 inchesWeight:1.2015Product ID:SCW4MA74XD
Rome's Revolution: Death of the Republic and Birth of the Empire
Two of the most famous mosaics from the ancient world, in the church of San Vitale in Ravenna, depict the sixth-century emperor Justinian and, on the wall facing him, his wife, Theodora (497-548). This majestic portrait gives no inkling of Theodora's very humble beginnings or her improbable rise to fame and power. Raised in a family of circus performers near Constantinople's Hippodrome, she...
Series: Ancient Warfare and Civilization
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780190663469ISBN-10:190663464UPC:9780190663469Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Ancient, MilitaryBook Topic:Rome, Ancient, Revolutions & Wars of IndependenceSize:9.20 x 6.20 x 0.80 inchesWeight:1.2015Product ID:SCW4MA74XD
Richard Alston is Professor of Roman History at Royal Holloway, University of London, and the author or editor of over a dozen books on ancient Rome.
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