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Michael Grant.
The Climax of Rome: The Final Achievements of the Ancient World AD 161-337.
Published London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1993 (hardback was 1968).
Series: History of Civilization.
ISBN 0297813919;
ISBN-13 9780297813910.
Binding: paperback, stitch bound.
Printer: Butler & Tanner, Frome & London.
Size: 156x234x25mm.
Page count: text xvii,299pp; plates 64pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: this copy looks rather battered, covers a bit grubby with some scuffs and creases, some wear on the edges with the corners starting to fray; some small holes & indentations on the lower corners throughout, particularly noticeable at the front end of the book, text area not affected; the spine is not creased from reading and the text appears to be free of marking.

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Weight without packaging: 665g.

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Contents: History of the later Empire; The military achievement; Cost of survival; The Emperor & his agents; Imperial artists & architects; Culture of the novel; Gospels of self-reliance — Meditations of Marcus Aurelianus; Climax of paganism; Triumph of Christianity.
Appendix: List of later Roman emperors.

Notes: at end of book
Tables: no
Illustrations: 64 pages of monochrome plates
Maps & plans: 8
Genealogies: 3
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 2pp
Index: yes

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