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The Portable Roman Reader
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Product Description: The Romans conquered most of the known world and detailed their conquests in calm, unapologetic histories. They were a supremely urbane people who longed poetically for the farming life. Valuing toughness and practicality in all things, they turned the love poem into a cynical rebuke and wrote tragedies in which the unfathomable actions of gods gave way to the staggering cruelties of man...read more
By Basil Davenport (editor)
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Paperback:

9780140150568 | Reprint edition (Penguin Classics, January 1, 1977), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A collection of representative works of great Roman writers and thinkers from the founding of the Republic to the collapse of the Empire

Prebinding:

9781439513224 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 9, 2009), cover price $27.00 | About this edition: The Romans conquered most of the known world and detailed their conquests in calm, unapologetic histories.

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