Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. C¿sar |
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But for the last forty years the pendulum has been swinging so much in the other
direction , that it has become necessary to enforce the lesson that the
biographies of great men are , after all , a most important part of history . It is well
to have ...
But for the last forty years the pendulum has been swinging so much in the other
direction , that it has become necessary to enforce the lesson that the
biographies of great men are , after all , a most important part of history . It is well
to have ...
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Above all , Rome had to a large extent become cosmopolitan , having absorbed
much Greek , or rather Gr¿co - Asiatic , culture and philosophy , and still more of
Hellenistic luxury and demoralisation . The very blood of the people was getting ...
Above all , Rome had to a large extent become cosmopolitan , having absorbed
much Greek , or rather Gr¿co - Asiatic , culture and philosophy , and still more of
Hellenistic luxury and demoralisation . The very blood of the people was getting ...
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Hence it came to pass that though many Roman expeditions had been sent
against the pirates , and several commanders had celebrated triumphs over them
, the evil was not removed , and the Mediterranean did not become really safe for
...
Hence it came to pass that though many Roman expeditions had been sent
against the pirates , and several commanders had celebrated triumphs over them
, the evil was not removed , and the Mediterranean did not become really safe for
...
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Cattle and sheep , kept on a large scale , could pay , long after corn had become
a hopeless failure . For while the Roman market was flooded with foreign wheat ,
there was no such competition in the matter of live stock . Ancient merchant ...
Cattle and sheep , kept on a large scale , could pay , long after corn had become
a hopeless failure . For while the Roman market was flooded with foreign wheat ,
there was no such competition in the matter of live stock . Ancient merchant ...
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The idea that the citizen might permanently remove himself from Italy , and settle
down on better soil in Spain or Africa — the America and Australia of the ancient
world — had not yet become familiar . It seemed abnormal and unpatriotic to a ...
The idea that the citizen might permanently remove himself from Italy , and settle
down on better soil in Spain or Africa — the America and Australia of the ancient
world — had not yet become familiar . It seemed abnormal and unpatriotic to a ...
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| Title | Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. C¿sar |
| Authors | Charles Oman, Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | Longmans, Green, 1902 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 25 juuni 2008 |
| Length | 348 pages |
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