Reviews for History of the Roman World 753-146bc

The average rating for History of the Roman World 753-146bc based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-08-21 00:00:00 Rhoderick Patricio A History of the Roman World 753 to 146 BC H.H. Scullard Read it in used mass market paperback at 576 page including Bibliography, appendix, etc. Scullard was born in 1903 and passed away in 1983 after retiring in 1970. He was a Fellow of the British Academy and Society of Antiquities. Scullard has a plethora of publications concerning Rome and is most definitely capable in his writing, although it is dated. My loyal band of history readers decided to try and tackle Rome in four books this year, this is the first of that effort, starting at the beginning. Back when Rome was just a group of people raiding the surrounding countryside for women and goods and then eventually forming into a collective, so on and so forth. Eventually when Rome starts to consolidate and then command the Mediterranean with the defeat of their biggest early adversary, Carthage. The writing itself is indeed old, this was first published in 1935 went through rewrites and re-published in 1970, and I would even say dry. Not so much of problem for me but the structure gets tough. Scullard decided to split his history into themes instead following a timeline. Each theme follows a loose timeline but it leaves the reader to collate it all together on their own. It can be jarring to jump around and this structure makes more sense from a teaching perspective. I can't recommend another work for the time period though and this is well received by many.

Review # 2 was written on 2009-12-02 00:00:00 C L Butterworth Except for scattershot mentions of early Roman history in high school Latin classes, my knowledge of the period before Julius Caesar is weak and mostly from the perspective of the Greeks. This period is, however, very important both in terms of establishing many of the forms instantiate under the Empire as well as in understanding what our own founding fathers were conversant with. I'm still pretty ignorant of early Roman history, but Scullard's book was a good start towards remediation.