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          Roman History, Volume I by Appian (English) Hardcover Book ; Approx.

        1. Roman History, Volume I by Appian (English) Hardcover Book ; Approx.
        2. Appian's Roman History: Empire and Civil War by Kathryn Welch (English) Hardcove ; ISBN ; Book Title.
        3. Rory Stewart has used the BBC's much-hyped mini-series Julius Caesar: The Making of a Dictator to deliver the message in person.
        4. Appian's Roman History: With an English Translation; Volume 4 Hardback.
        5. The articles assembled in this volume explore the manifold forms of the plupast in Greek and Roman historians from Herodotus to Appian.

          6. Rory Stewart has used the BBC's much-hyped mini-series Julius Caesar: The Making of a Dictator to deliver the message in person....

          emperor Antoninus Pius, with a request, made on a number of previous occasions, that the emperor confer a procuratorship on Fronto’s longtime friend Appian, who was now an old man in search of honor rather than position and money.2

          One other potential source of information about Appian’s life and career may be supplied by a sarcophagus in Rome, which, according to the verse inscription on it, a certain Appianos prepared for himself and his wife, Eutychia, while they were both still alive.

          Given the rarity of the name Appianos in Rome, the learned nature of the verses, and the suitability of a wife named Eutychia for someone who attributed great importance to Rome’s good fortune (eutychia), a case can be made that the Appianos in question is our historian.3 If so, we have the additional information that Appian held a priesthood of Tyche at Rome to which he was appointed by the emperor, that he married Eutychia when she was twelve years old, and that Eutychia died when she was f