title: The Antonines: The Roman Empire in Transition
author:  Michael Grant 
description: <strong>`The author writes brilliantly, clearly and with fascinating detail. Most exciting of all is the way that he ties the concerns of ancient history, especially here the maintenance of Empires (be they Soviet or Roman) into the concerns of our own time.'</strong> - <em>Oxbow Books</em>
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  Antonina
  
  
    
    
  CHAPTER I. GOISVINTHA  
    
  CHAPTER II. THE COURT  
    
  CHAPTER III. ROME  
    
  [CHAPTER IV. THE CHURCH  
    
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  V. ANTONINA  
    
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  VI. APPRENTICESHIP TO THE TEMPLE  
    
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  VII. THE BED-CHAMBER  
    
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  VIII. THE GOTHS  
    
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  IX. THE TWO INTERVIEWS  
    
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  X. THE RIFT IN THE WALL  
    
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  XI. GOISVINTHA' S RETURN  
    
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