Appian’s Roman History

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Appian’s Roman History is a multi-volume historical work by the ancient Greek historian Appian that chronicles the rise and conflicts of the Roman Republic, including its wars with Carthage and the career of Hannibal.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient historiography
historical work
author Appian of Alexandria
circulation manuscript tradition in Late Antiquity and Middle Ages
countryOfOrigin Roman Empire
coversEvent Mithridatic Wars with Rome
surface form: Mithridatic Wars

Punic Wars
Roman civil wars
Macedonian Wars
surface form: Roman conquest of Greece

Roman conquest of Spain
Punic Wars
surface form: Roman wars with Carthage

Social War
career of Hannibal Barca
genre Roman history
historicalMethod arranged by peoples and wars rather than strict chronology
historicalPeriodDescribed Roman Kingdom
Roman Republic
transition to Roman Empire
includesBook Roman civil wars
surface form: Civil Wars

Second Punic War
surface form: Hannibalica (Hannibalic War)

Iberica (Spanish Wars)
Mithridatic dynasty
surface form: Mithridatica (Mithridatic Wars)

Punic Wars
Syrian Wars
surface form: Syriaca (Syrian Wars)
influenced later Roman historiography
language Ancient Greek
latinTitle Historia Romana
literaryForm prose
mainSubject Roman civil wars
surface form: Roman civil and foreign wars

history of the Roman Republic
narrativeScope from early Rome to the establishment of the Empire
notableFigureDescribed Hannibal (Carthaginian general)
surface form: Hannibal Barca

Julius Caesar
Marius
Augustus
surface form: Octavian (Augustus)

Pompey the Great
Scipio Africanus
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
surface form: Sulla
numberOfVolumes multiple
originalTitle Roman Greece
surface form: Ῥωμαικά
perspective pro-Roman viewpoint
sourceFor history of the Punic Wars
history of the Roman civil wars
Late Roman Republic
surface form: history of the late Roman Republic
structure collection of books on separate wars and peoples
survivalStatus partially preserved
timeOfComposition 2nd century CE
usedBy modern historians of Rome

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Hannibal (Carthaginian general) describedIn Appian’s Roman History
subject surface form: Hannibal
Battle of Heraclea hasPrimarySource Appian’s Roman History
Pompey the Great portrayedInWork Appian’s Roman History