Roman History in Chains
Fergus Millar, 19 June 1980
Pompey: A Political Biography
by Robin Seager.
Blackwell, 209 pp., £12, August 1979,0 631 10841 6 Show More
by Robin Seager.
Blackwell, 209 pp., £12, August 1979,
Cicero: the Ascending Years
by Thomas Mitchell.
Yale, 257 pp., £11, September 1979,0 300 02277 8 Show More
by Thomas Mitchell.
Yale, 257 pp., £11, September 1979,
Clio’s Cosmetics: Three Studies in Greco-Roman Literature
by T.P. Wiseman.
Leicester University Press, 209 pp., £13, November 1979,0 7185 1165 4 Show More
by T.P. Wiseman.
Leicester University Press, 209 pp., £13, November 1979,
“... sort of framework. The only one of these books which offers any Mediterranean-wide perspective is Balsdon’s Romans and Aliens, a remarkable collection of curious learning and an enjoyable memorial to a cultivated and scholarls Oxford don, who wrote it in retirement and did not live to see its publication. It sets out to sketch a number of related themes ... ”
