The Antonines

The Antonines

by Michael Grant
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 06/05/2016

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The Antonines - Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Verus and Commodus - played a crucial part in the development of the Roman empire, controlling its huge machine for half a century of its most testing period. Edward Gibbon observed that the epoch of the Antonines, the 2nd century A.D., was the happiest period the world had ever known.

In this lucid, authoritative survey, Michael Grant re-examines Gibbon's statement, and gives his own magisterial account of how the lives of the emperors and the art, literature, architecture and overall social condition under the Antonines represented an `age of transition'. The Antonines is essential reading for anyone who is interested in ancient history, as well as for all students and teachers of the subject.

ISBN:
9781317972105
9781317972105
Category:
Ancient history: to c 500 CE
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
06-05-2016
Language:
English
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
Michael Grant

Michael Grant has spent much of his life on the move. Raised in a military family, he attended ten schools in five states, as well as three schools in France. Even as an adult he kept moving, and in fact he became a writer in part because it was one of the few jobs that wouldn’t tie him down.

Michael is the author of the bestselling Gone series, the BZRK trilogy and the brand new Front Lines trilogy, the first book of which released in March 2016. With his wife Katherine Applegate, he is also the co-author of Eve and Adam and the Animorphs series, and has written or co-authored over 150 books, which by his own admission is just absurd!

Michael lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with Katherine and their two children, 18 and 15 (because numbers are so much easier to remember than names).

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