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Appian

Appianus (Greek

Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
: ) (c. 95 – c. 165), of Alexandria

Alexandria

Alexandria , with a population of 4.1 million, is the second-largest city in Egypt, and is the country's largest seaport, serving about 80% of Egypt's imports and exports....
was a Roman

Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC....
historian (of Greek

Greeks

The Greeks , also known as Hellenes, are a nation and ethnic group native to Greece, Cyprus and neighbouring regions, who can also be found in Greek diaspora communities around the world....
ethnicity) who flourished during the reigns of Trajan

Trajan

Marcus Ulpius Nerva Traianus, commonly known as Trajan , was a Roman Emperors who reigned from 98 until his death in 117. Born Marcus Ulpius Traianus into a nonpatrician family in the Hispania Baetica province , Trajan rose to prominence during the reign of emperor Domitian, serving as a general in the Roman army along the Limes G...
, Hadrian

Hadrian

Publius Aelius Hadrianus , as emperor Imperator Caesar Divi Traiani filius Traianus Hadrianus Augustus, and Divus Hadrianus after his apotheosis, known as Hadrian in English language, was Roman Emperor of Roman Empire from AD 117 to 138, as well as a Stoicism and Epicureanism philosopher....
and Antoninus Pius

Antoninus Pius

Titus Aurelius Fulvus Boionius Arrius Antoninus , generally known in English as Antoninus Pius was Roman Emperors from 138 to 161. He was the fourth of the Five Good Emperors and a member of the Aurelii....
. He is commonly referred to by the anglicised form of his name, Appian.

He was born ca. 95 in Alexandria. He tells us that, after having filled the chief offices in the province

Roman province

In Ancient Rome, a province was the basic, and until the Tetrarchy , largest territorial and administrative unit of the empire's territorial possessions outside of the Italia ....
of Egypt, he went to Rome

Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
ca. 120, where he practiced as an advocate

Advocate

An advocate is one who speaks on behalf of another person, especially in a legal context. It is used primarily in reference to the system of Scots law, Anglo-Dutch law, Scandinavian law and Law of Israel....
, pleading cases before the emperors

Roman Emperor

The Roman Emperor was the ruler of the Roman Empire during the imperial period . The Romans had no single term for the office: Latin language titles such as imperator , Augustus , Caesar and princeps were all associated with it....
.

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Appianus (Greek

Greek language

Alexandria

Alexandria , with a population of 4.1 million, is the second-largest city in Egypt, and is the country's largest seaport, serving about 80% of Egypt's imports and exports....
was a Roman

Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC....
historian (of Greek

Greeks

Trajan

Hadrian

Antoninus Pius

Roman province

Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
ca. 120, where he practiced as an advocate

Advocate

Roman Emperor

Procurator

Procurator may refer to:In historical uses:*Promagistrate, an appointed position in the Roman Republic by the Senate, acting in place of a curator...
, probably in Egypt, on the recommendation of his friend Marcus Cornelius Fronto

Marcus Cornelius Fronto

Marcus Cornelius Fronto , Roman grammarian, rhetorician and advocate, was born at Cirta in Numidia. He also was suffect consul of 142....
. The position of procurator was open only to members of the equestrian

Equestrian (Roman)

The Roman equestrian order constituted the lower of the two aristocratic classes of ancient Rome, ranking below the Roman senate Order . A member of the order was known as an eques , which in Latin has the general meaning of any person mounted on a horse , but in this context carries the specific meaning of "knight"....
class.

His work (??µa???, known in English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
as the Roman History) in twenty-four books, written in Greek

Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
before 165, is more a number of monographs than a connected history. It gives an account of various peoples and countries from the earliest times down to their incorporation into the Roman Empire

Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the Roman Republic phase of the Ancient Rome, characterised by an autocracy form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....
, and survives in complete books and considerable fragments. In spite of its unattractive style, the work is very valuable, especially for the period of the civil wars.

The Civil Wars, five of the later books in the corpus, concern mainly the end of the Roman Republic

Roman Republic

The Roman Republic was the phase of the Ancient Rome characterized by a republican form of government; a period which began with the overthrow of the Roman Roman Kingdom, c....
and take a conflict based approach to history.

Editions

Editio princeps
Editio princeps

In classical scholarship, editio princeps is a term of art. It means, roughly, the first printed edition of a work, that previously had existed only in manuscripts, which were therefore circulated only after being copied by hand....
, 1551
Schweighauser, 1785
Bekker, 1852
Ludwig Mendelssohn, 1878-1905, Appiani Historia Romana, Bibliotheca Teubneriana
Bibliotheca Teubneriana

The Bibliotheca Teubneriana, or Teubner editions of Ancient Greek literature and Latin literature texts, comprise the most thorough modern collection ever published of ancient Greco-Roman literature....
Paul Goukowsky, 1997-, Appien. Histoire romaine (Greek text, French translation, notes), Collection Budé
Collection Budé

The Collection Bud?, or the Collection des Universit?s de France, is a series of books comprising the Ancient Greek literature and Latin literature classics up to the middle of the 6th century....

English translations:

W. B., 1578 (black letter) - possibly William Barker - used by Shakespeare
J. D[avies], 1679
Horace White
Horace White (writer)

Horace White was an United States journalist and financial expert, born at Colebrook, New Hampshire, New Hampshire. He graduated at Beloit College in 1853, and in 1854 became city editor of the Chicago Evening Journal....
, 1899 (Bohn's Classical Library);
Book I edited by James Leigh Strachan-Davidson
James Leigh Strachan-Davidson

James Leigh Strachan-Davidson was an English people classical scholar, born at Penrith, Cumbria. He was educated at Leamington College and at Balliol College, Oxford, University of Oxford, and from 1907 was Master of Balliol....
, 1902.
Books XIII-XVII (Civil Wars), transl. John Carter, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1996

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