id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6978 Appian - Wikipedia .html text/html 2020 224 61 His principal surviving work (Ρωμαϊκά Romaiká, known in Latin as Historia Romana and in English as Roman History) was written in Greek in 24 books, before 165. It gives an account of various peoples and countries from the earliest times down to their incorporation into the Roman Empire, and survives in complete books and considerable fragments.[1] The work is very valuable, especially for the period of the civil wars.[2] The other extant work of Appian is his "The Foreign Wars", which includes an ethnographic style history recounting the various military conflicts against a foreign enemy in Roman history, until the time of Appian. 2.1 Appian's Roman History and The Civil Wars Appian's Roman History and The Civil Wars[edit] Another work of Appian's history which still survives mostly extant is called The Foreign Wars. Appian's Roman History. Hidden categories: Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6978.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6978.txt