Author: MATTERN, SUSAN P.
Title: Rome and the Enemy: Imperial Strategy in the Principate
Description: Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0520211669. A first printing of Susan Mattern's examination of the tactics employed by military leaders during the Principate, or the Roman Empire's period of being led by a single authoritarian emperor. Beginning with the reign of Augustus in 31 B.C. through Maximinus Thrax in 238 A.D, these generals often spurned expertise and were sometimes rather petty and short sighted. With five maps and a drawing. --- Bound in grey and blue paper-covered boards with spine titling in silver. Volume wrapped in dust jacket with view of a snowy Hadrian's Wall to front panel. --- With an inked notation to front free endpaper, else a tightly-bound, otherwise unmarked copy. Bright dust jacket lacks apparent damages.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; xviii, [4], 260 pages. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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