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Chicago: The University of Chicago Press (1968), 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [6], vii-xi, [3], 346 pp. Quarter maroon cloth over white cloth with a maroon decoration on the front board with gold lettering on the spine; pink topstain. Red endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with several black and white plates. With a bibliography and an index. Goodwater 468: "The only major account in English of the life of Galla Placidia...copiously footnoted, the book combines scholarship with readable prose." Fading to the topstain; jacket shows a tiny nick to the front fold.
GALLA PLACIDIA AUGUSTA: A BIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY by Oost, Stewart Irvin - 1968
by Oost, Stewart Irvin
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GALLA PLACIDIA AUGUSTA: A BIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY
by Oost, Stewart Irvin
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Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1968. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. 346 pp; scholarly biography Galla Placida Augusta, who was no orinary Roman matron in fifth cenury Roman history,descendant and ancestress of Roman emperors, captive of the invading Goths, wife of Athaulf, king of the Goths, later wife of Emperor Constantius III, and still later for twelve years de facto regent of the West Roman Empire; with 8 pages of b & w photos; documented with extensive notes; dj has been taped to boards by a former owner including a piece of scotch tape holding it to both front and rear pastedowns.
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- Publisher The University of Chicago Press
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- Date Published 1968
- Keywords Roman Empire; Ancient History; Late Roman Empire; Roman History
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Galla Placidia Augusta; A Biographical Essay
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