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Ernest Barker, trans.
From Alexander to Constantine: Passages and Documents Illustrating the History of Social and Political Ideas 336 BC — AD 337.

Published Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956.
[No ISBN].
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printer: the University Press, Oxford.
Size: 155x220x40mm.
Page count: xxv,504pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: the dustjacket is completely disintegrated, though is included for completeness, its is spine missing and the other parts in poor condition; the book itself looks generally in reasonable order, some wear on the boards and spine; pages a bit yellowed with age, endpapers foxed; at least 2 pages have some underlining in red ink.


This item £10.00
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Weight without packaging: 871g.

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Organised under the following headings: Hellenistic period (336-146 BC); Hellenistic-Jewish thought 200 BC — AD 50; Period of Latin thought (100 BC — AD 100); Later Greek thought, Posidonius to Themistius; Social & political ideas of the Christian Church down to the age of Constantine.

Notes: at foot of page
Tables: no
Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: yes
Glossary: no
Bibliography: no
Indexes: Authors; Persons & subjects.


See also | Late Antiquity |

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