History HerodianPevná vazba
History HerodianPevná vazba The History of Herodian (born ca. In these years, a succession of frontier crises and a disastrous lack of economic planning established a pattern of military coups and…
Specifikacia History HerodianPevná vazba
History HerodianPevná vazba
The History of Herodian (born ca. In these years, a succession of frontier crises and a disastrous lack of economic planning established a pattern of military coups and increasing cultural pluralism.Of this revolutionary epoch we know all too little. 178-179 CE) covers a period of the Roman empire from the death of the emperor Marcus Aurelius (180 CE) to the accession of Gordian III (238), half a century of turbulence, in which we can see the onset of the revolution which, in the words of Gibbon, will ever be remembered, and is still felt by the nations of the earth.
Herodian's work is one of the few that have survived, and it has come down to us completely intact. The selection of chance has destroyed all but a handful of the literary sources that deal with the immediate post- Antonine scene. Of the author we know virtually nothing, except that he served in some official