The End of the Ancient World

204 Pages·1966·6.32 MB·English

by  Santo Mazzarino

T H E
END OF THE
ANCIENT
WORLD

T H E
E N D O F T H E
ANCIENT
WORLD
Santo Mazzarino
TRANSLATED FROM THE ITALIAN BY
George Holmes
ALFRED A KNOPF
• •
NEW YORK
L. C. catalog card number: 64-19092
THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK
PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF, INC.
Copyright © 1966 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
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House, Inc. Published simultaneously in Toronto, Canada, by
Random House of Canada, Limited.
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION
Originally published in Italian by Aldo Garzanti Editore as
La Fine del Mondo Antico.
© 1959 by Aldo Garzanti Editore.
Acknowledgments
For permission to quote from copyright works acknowledg­
ments are due as follows :
Messrs George Allen & Unwin for The Revolt of the Masses
by Ortega y Gasset; the Clarendon Press for A Roman
Reformer and Inventor by E. A. Thompson and Social and
Economic History of the Roman Empire (second edition)
by M. Rostovtzeff; the Loeb Classical Library and Harvard
University Press for the translation of Petronius; Oxford
and Cambridge University Presses for the New English
Bible, New Testament, Copyright 1961.