Readings in Late Antiquity: A Sourcebook
- ISBN-10
- 0415159873
- ISBN-13
- 9780415159876
- Category
- Byzantine Empire
- Pages
- 375
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
- Publisher
- Psychology Press
- Author
- Michael Maas
Description
This volume seeks to make accessible to students a multiplicity of texts which illuminate the history, culture, medicine, philosophy, religion and peoples of late antiquity.
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