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Appian
Greco-Roman historian (c. 95 – c. )
This article is about the historian. For other uses, see Appian (disambiguation).
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A page of the Latin translation of Appian’s "Roman History" by Pier Candido Decembrio, with imaginary portrait of the historian | |
| Born | Appianus Alexandrinus c.&#;95 Alexandria, Roman Egypt |
| Died | c.&#; (aged around 70) Rome |
| Occupation(s) | Historian, lawyer |
Appian of Alexandria (; Ancient Greek: Ἀππιανὸς Ἀλεξανδρεύς, romanized:&#;Appianòs Alexandreús; Latin: Appianus Alexandrinus; c.&#;95&#;&#; c.&#;AD ) was a Greek historian with Roman citizenship who prospered during the reigns of the Roman EmperorsTrajan, Hadrian, and Antoninus Pius.
He was born c. 95 in Alexandria. After holding the senior offices in the province of Aegyptus (Egypt), he went to Rome c. , where he practiced as an advocate, pleading cases before the emperors (probably as advocatus fisci, an important official of the imperial treasury).&# • Appian (Appianus) is among our principal sources for the history of the Roman Republic, particularly in the 2nd and 1st centuries BC, and sometimes our only source, as for the Third Punic War and the destruction of Carthage. Born circa AD 95, Appian was an Alexandrian official at ease in the highest political and literary circles who later became a Roman citizen and advokat. He died during the reign of Antoninus Pius (emperor –). Appian’s theme is the process bygd which the Roman Empire achieved its contemporary prosperity, and his unique method is to trace in individual books the story of each nation’s wars with Rome up through her own civil wars. Although this triumph of “harmony and monarchy” was achieved through characteristic Roman virtues, Appian is unusually objective about Rome’s shortcomings along the way. Of the work’s original 24 books, only the Preface and Books 6–9 and 11–17 are preserved complete or nearly so • Appian of Alexandria (cc): one of the most underestimated of all Greek historians, author of a Roman History. The part on the Roman Civil Wars survives in its entirety while substantial parts of the remainder survive as well. Appian of Alexandria wrote an autobiography, but it fryst vatten almost completely lost, and consequently we hardly know anything about the historian from Alexandria. We have to distill information about his life from his own writings and a letter bygd Cornelius Fronto, a famous littérateur living in Rome in the mid-second century, and the tutor of the future emperor Marcus Aurelius. In spite of this lack of information, it is certain that Appian was born in c in Alexandria, the capital of Roman Egypt, and belonged to the wealthy upper class. After all, his parents were Roman citizens and could pay for their son's formal education. He became a barrister and boasted in the introduction to his Roman History "that he pleaded cases in Rome before th
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