APPIAN The Wars of the Romans in Iberia

Appian's Iberike, of which this is the first translation with historical commentary in English, deals with the Romans' wars in the Iberian peninsula from the third to the first centuries BC. It is the only continuous source for much of the history of this crucial period in one of the earliest regtions of Rome's imperial expansion.

John Richardson is Professor of Classics at the University of Edinburgh.

192pp.; cl 719 7 $59.99 / £35; pb 720 0 $22 / £13.25 (2000)

CONTENTS Preface Bibliography Maps 1. Spain, the towns. 2. Spain, the provincial boundaries. 3. Spain, the tribes and relief. INTRODUCTION The author Appian's Roman History The structure of the Wars in Iberia Appian as a historian The establishment of the text This edition and commentary Notes to the introduction PARALLEL GREEK TEXT AND ENGLISH TRANSLATION COMMENTARY Indexes

 SOME COMMENTS BY REVIEWERS
"...serious students of the subject are put further in his debt by his making the Iberike accessible beyond the circle of specialists ... The introduction is concise, but informative ... The translation is straightforward ... We shall continue to turn to Appian as a useful supplementary historical source. In so doing we shall be immensely helped by R's clear and expert guidance." JACT

"R. has produced an edition which should indeed add impetus to the welcome upsurge of interest in this intriguing period and a writer who, as R. puts it, "has more to be said for him than has always been acknowledged". BMCR

"Richardson painstakingly elucidates geographical chaos, chronological difficulties, and prosopographical confusions, making sense of snakes-and-ladders Roman progress and throwing light into what for monoglot readers was a dark area of the Roman world. ...this is a distinguished contribution to the publisher's series, making one wish for a uniform Civil Wars." Greece and Rome