From: The Historian | Date: March 22, 1996| Author: | COPYRIGHT 1996 Phi Alpha Theta, History Honor Society, Inc. 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

By Michael Grant. (London and New York: Routledge, 1994. Pp. viii, 210. $22.95.)

In more than fifty books, this classical scholar has made accessible to the general reader major periods and problems of ancient Greek and Roman history while earning a reputation as an insightful and reliable popularizer. Here Grant turns to that era conventionally regarded as the high water mark of Roman imperial civilization, the Antonine Age (AD 138-192). The author considers how the enormous, multicultural Roman state worked so successfully, alert all the while to the strains that would lead ...