Annotated Sixteenth Century Latin Account of Alexander the Great's Conquests by Justinus, One of the Few Surviving Latin Histories from the Pre-Christian Roman World
[Mediterranean][Military] Justinus, Marcus Junianus. Historiae Philippicae. The 1539 Latin edition preserving the principal surviving account of the lost universal history of Trogus Pompeius, one of the most important pre-Christian narratives of Macedonian rule. Composed originally as an abridgment of Trogus’s forty-four-book history written under Augustus, Justinus’s text passes on essential.....