From: History Today | Date: November 1, 1995| Author: Alston, Richard | COPYRIGHT 1995 History Today Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Michael Grant is an extraordinarily prolific historian, most of whose works are general introductions or surveys of the political and institutional history of the ancient world. This work is no exception. Grant summarises the political events of the reigns of Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius and Commodus. This was not an age of great political drama and has not attracted conventional historians in either ancient or modern periods. There was an orderly succession of relatively popular ...