# Appian

> A Greek lawyer who ended up telling Rome's story better than the Romans did. His "Civil Wars" is the only full account we have of the Republic's bloody collapse - written in Greek, for an empire that had swallowed his own city.

*Greco-Roman historian (c. 95 - c.165)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/appian

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Country:** Egypt
- **Born:** 95
- **Died:** 165
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born around 95 in Alexandria, Appian climbed the colonial ladder: senior posts in Roman Egypt, then west to Rome itself around 120, where he worked as an advocate pleading cases before emperors. By 147 he'd been named procurator - likely back in Egypt - a position reserved for the equestrian class, marking him as a man from means. Somewhere in those years he started writing. His "Roman History", finished before 165, runs to 24 books in Greek and works more like a stack of monographs than a single thread: each volume tracks a people or war from their start to the moment Rome absorbed them. The core - books 13 through 17, called "The Civil Wars" - covers the Republic's final decades and remains the only surviving blow-by-blow of that unraveling. He cited no sources, but his account is all we have for stretches no one else documented in full.

## Fame
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## Topics
#Writers, #Writer / Author, #History, #Literature, #Law, #Ancient History

## Sources
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- [Appian z Aleksandrii](https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appian_z_Aleksandrii)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q190368)
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