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According to its first line, this book “is a study of social and cultural change.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this book by the historian Peter Brown. This book describes how the title period of Mediterranean history between 200 CE and 700 CE differs from “classical” civilization, as it is traditionally defined.
ANSWER: The World of Late Antiquity
[10e] In The World of Late Antiquity, Brown rejects the idea that the Late Antique world is a “melancholy tale of ‘Decline and Fall,’” referring back to this historian’s History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
ANSWER: Edward Gibbon
[10m] The World of Late Antiquity emphasizes how quickly Rome’s “Crisis of the Third Century” emerged by stating that this author “lay down his pen in 229 with no sense of foreboding.” This author’s 80-book History of Rome was written in Greek.
ANSWER: Lucius Cassius Dio [or Lucius Dio Cassius; or Dion Kassios; prompt on Dio or Cassius]
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