Roman Letters: History from a Personal Point of View

by Finley Hooper, Matthew Schwartz

Book by Hooper, Finley P.

344 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1991

About the author

Finley Allison Hooper was a historian who spent many years teaching at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, where he was Professor Emeritus of History at the time of his death in 1993. He had earlier served as visiting assistant professor of history at the University of Michigan, where he had earned his PhD. Professor Hooper was a specialist in classical Greek and Roman civilisation. He had more than two thousand scholarly articles published during his career, as well as several books. At least one of those books ('Roman Realities') was for several years widely used as a textbook in U.S. colleges and universities.

Reviews

[Jack · Rating 4 out of 5]

An interesting read - a collection of letters written by Romans from the time of the late Republic (Cicero) to the 6th century AD (Cassiodorus).

My goodness were some of these people wordy - and the run-on sentences - they went on forever.

I wish they would have included more letters from Roman Egypt - 1st-3rd century AD.

20 years before he wrote this book Dr Hooper was my advisor in college.