Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. C¿sar |
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19 - 41 PREFACE THERE are several general histories of the decline and fall of
the Roman Republic , dealing with its political and constitutional aspects . This
little book is not a history , but a series of studies of the leading men of the century
...
19 - 41 PREFACE THERE are several general histories of the decline and fall of
the Roman Republic , dealing with its political and constitutional aspects . This
little book is not a history , but a series of studies of the leading men of the century
...
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Roman history in particular has been so much treated of late years as a mere
example of constitutional growth and degeneration , or as a bundle of interesting
administrative and legal details , that it seems not out of place to recall that other
...
Roman history in particular has been so much treated of late years as a mere
example of constitutional growth and degeneration , or as a bundle of interesting
administrative and legal details , that it seems not out of place to recall that other
...
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While the imperial city was fighting abroad , to maintain her existence and her
suzerainty over the whole Mediterranean basin , she was being torn at home by a
great constitutional struggle which pierced to the very roots of her being . This
was ...
While the imperial city was fighting abroad , to maintain her existence and her
suzerainty over the whole Mediterranean basin , she was being torn at home by a
great constitutional struggle which pierced to the very roots of her being . This
was ...
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Complicated with this great constitutional question , as to where sovereignty
should reside at Rome , were a number of social and economic questions ,
arising from the fact that the new commercial conditions of the Mediterranean
world ...
Complicated with this great constitutional question , as to where sovereignty
should reside at Rome , were a number of social and economic questions ,
arising from the fact that the new commercial conditions of the Mediterranean
world ...
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While Rome had been transformed , her constitution remained perfectly
unchanged , and the rude administrative machinery which had sufficed to
manage a small community of farmers living close around the walls of the city ,
was being ...
While Rome had been transformed , her constitution remained perfectly
unchanged , and the rude administrative machinery which had sufficed to
manage a small community of farmers living close around the walls of the city ,
was being ...
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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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