April 12, 2024
DIONYSIUS OF HALICARNASSUS, Roman Antiquities (in Latin) (Geneva, 1603)
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DIONYSIUS OF HALICARNASSUSAntiquitates Romanae(Latin version by Aemilius Porta) [Geneva], Jacob Stoer, 1603 DIONYSIUS OF HALICARNASSUS Antiquitatum Rom. Libri XI. Ab AEmilio Porto . . . Latine redditi . AN.p. [Geneva] (apud Iacobum Stoer), 1603. 16mo (117 x 88mm). Latin text. Woodcut initials and ornaments. Index. [xxxii], 1010, [xxx] pp. Early signatures on title-page. Leaves Mm2 (pp. 547/48) and Ggg2 (pp. 835/6) with small sections torn from lower margins, affecting one letter on Mm2. Very light damp-staining in first half of book. Disbound and lacks endpapers, but stitching still firm; spine reinforced with vellum strips from 15th-century manuscript. Dionysius, who lived in the first century B.C., lived in Rome for many years and wrote a history of Rome in twenty books, covering the first five hundred years of the state; the last nine books are lost. Dionysius was essentially a rhetorician and he wrote with the intention of reconciling the Greek-speaking world with Roman rule; nonetheless, his work is valuable for its careful attention to sources (Dionysius shows the influence of Thucydides) and as a corrective to the rather romantic presentation of early Roman history given by Livy. Only the first eleven books, embracing rather more than three hundred years (until the fall of the Decemvirs), still exist. They are given here
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