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Title: A History of Rome to 565 A. D.

Author: Arthur Edward Romilly Boak

Release Date: May 31, 2010 [Ebook #32624]

Language: English

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[Illustration: The Roman Empire in the Second Century A. D.]

A HISTORY OF ROME
TO 565 A. D.

BY
ARTHUR E. R. BOAK, Ph. D.,
Professor of Ancient History
in the University of Michigan

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1921
_All rights reserved_

COPYRIGHT, 1921.
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and electrotyped. Published December, 1921.

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

PREFACE

This sketch of the History of Rome to 565 A. D. is primarily intended to
meet the needs of introductory college courses in Roman History. However,
it is hoped that it may also prove of service as a handbook for students
of Roman life and literature in general. It is with the latter in mind
that I have added the bibliographical note. Naturally, within the brief
limits of such a text, it was impossible to defend the point of view
adopted on disputed points or to take notice of divergent opinions.
Therefore, to show the great debt which I owe to the work of others, and
to provide those interested in particular problems with some guide to more
detailed study, I have given a list of selected references, which express,
I believe, the prevailing views of modern scholarship upon the various
phases of Roman History.

I wish to acknowledge my general indebtedness to Professor W. S. Ferguson
of Harvard University for his guidance in my approach to the study of
Roman History, and also my particular obligations to Professor W. L.
Westermann of Cornell, and to my colleagues, Professors A. L. Cross and J.
G. Winter, fo