The Origins, Program, and Composition of Appian's Roman History

The Lives of Augustus

“…Bucher, whose article on Appian remains perhaps the best attempt to understand Appian's compositional techniques, shows the discrepancies and weaknesses of the first preface and from this point of view, it makes more sense to see Appian as presenting himself as working out the way his history would develop as he went along. 11 The graphe of the first books therefore is no other than Appian's own writing. However, let us for the moment assume that there was a single source; how does this relate to the rest of Canfora's argument on Augustus?…”

La «Epístola prohemial» a la traducción de "Los Triumphos" de Apiano (1522): entre el panegírico a Rodrigo de Mendoza, marqués del Cenete, y la crónica de la guerra de las Germanías

“…Y ello justifica la importancia que le concede en su obra a la historia de su país de origen, Egipto, hasta el punto de ser el lugar de culminación de las guerras civiles romanas, otorgando a su ciudad natal, Alejandría, un gran papel. Véase Bucher (2000) y Luce (1964).…”