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Article: The Antonines: The Roman Empire in Transition. (book reviews)
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- November 1, 1995
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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 and sane emperors, who normally maintained good relations with the Senate (until Commodus at any rate). The emperors had won the great constitutional struggles with the Senate, the barbarians ...
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