ROME AND THE FRIENDLY KING; The Character of the Client Kingship

Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Call numbers on spine have been removed leaving sticker residue to boards. Slight wear to corners. A couple of genealogical tables at back have a few small tears.; 226 pages; First major study of the relationship between Rome and the kings of her world. It covers the whole of that world over a period of six centuries from the third century BC. It aims to give a functional definition of what is usually called client kingship-- to show what a client king (or friendly king to use the Roman term) was in practice.