Lives Of Famous Romans

Lives Of Famous Romans
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Total Pages : 248
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ISBN-10 : 0756779839
ISBN-13 : 9780756779832
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Book Synopsis Lives Of Famous Romans by : Olivia Coolidge

Download or read book Lives Of Famous Romans written by Olivia Coolidge and published by . This book was released on 1992-05-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lives of 12 famous Romans are vividly portrayed here in biographical sketches set firmly in the context of their times. Included are Cicero, Caesar, Augustus, Vergil and Horace, Nero and Seneca, Trajan, Hadrian, Marcus Aurelius, Diocletian, and Constantine. Long known for her many biographies and histories, British historian and author Olivia Coolidge is a scrupulous researcher who has breathed life into dry texts and brought to ancient history the flesh and blood that will make it real for young people today. Here, each profile of a famous Roman resonates and changes when juxtaposed with the others so we see ancient Roman history from several different angles, and thereby receive a richly detailed picture. Each Roman is depicted in a line drawing.


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