The main aim of Dionysius of Halicarnassus' Roman Antiquities, which began to appear in 7 BCE, was to reconcile Greeks to Roman rule. Of the twenty books (from

Interprets the works of Dionysius of Halicarnassus, an important critic and historian in Rome, in a range of contexts.

Reconstructs the origins of the idea that social conflict, and not concord, makes political communities powerful.