|
Appian of
Alexandria (c.95-c.165) is the author of a Roman History and
one of the most underestimated of all Greek historians. Although only his
books on the Roman Civil Wars survive in their entirety, large parts of
Appian's book on the Syrian
War, or Syriaca, have also come down to us. This book deals
with the war that the Romans and the Seleucid
king Antiochus
III the Great fought in 192-188, but also discusses, as an appendix,
the history of the Seleucid Empire. The Syriaca is a valuable source
for the history of the ancient Near East between the reign of Alexander
the Great and the Roman conquest.
The translation was made by Horace White; notes
and additions in green
by Jona Lendering.
There are two systems to divide the Syriaca:
in seventy sections or eleven chapters. On these webpages, the text is
divided into sections; the following table shows the division into chapters.
|
|
