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Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781585107957
Year: 2016
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Description:
With just 350 passages (more than half of them consisting of Latin inscriptions, from all over Rome's empire), Harvey manages to give his readers a real sense of Roman private values and behaviours. His translations of the original texts are superb-both accurate and elegant. And he contextualizes his chosen passages with a series ofremarkably economical but solidly reliable introductions.
ISBN: 9781585107957
Year: 2016
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Description:
With just 350 passages (more than half of them consisting of Latin inscriptions, from all over Rome's empire), Harvey manages to give his readers a real sense of Roman private values and behaviours. His translations of the original texts are superb-both accurate and elegant. And he contextualizes his chosen passages with a series ofremarkably economical but solidly reliable introductions.