A History of Rome.

Frank, Tenney

Published by Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1928

About this Item

First edition, second printing of this comprehensive, accessible survey of Roman history from the city's founding to the late Empire. Octavo, original publisher's cloth with gilt titles to the spine, illustrated with maps. In very good condition, signature to the front pastedown. A History of Rome (Henry Holt and Company, 1923) is a comprehensive single-volume survey by Tenney Frank (1876â "1939), one of the most distinguished American classical scholars of the early twentieth century, who held the chair of Latin at Johns Hopkins University and produced a body of work that fundamentally shaped the economic and social historiography of ancient Rome in the English-speaking world. Frank began his career in the finer points of Latin grammar and prosody before finding his true scholarly voice in the social and economic analysis of ancient Rome, and A History of Rome reflects the maturity of that evolution â " written, as Frank himself noted in his preface, with an eye firmly on college instruction while remaining accessible to the general reader. The work traces the trajectory of Rome from its earliest origins as a small settlement on the Tiber to its emergence as a dominant global power, examining the internal social and economic structures that fueled Roman expansion, the political intricacies of the Republican era, and the eventual rise of the imperial system, all rendered with the clarity and rigorous attention to historical evidence that distinguished Frank's scholarship from the more speculative treatments of his contemporaries.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A History of Rome.
• Publisher: Henry Holt and Company, New York
• Publication Date: 1928
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
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