Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius. Dill Samuel
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Название: Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius
Автор: Dill Samuel
Издательство: Bookwire
Жанр: Документальная литература
isbn: 4064066101800
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Samuel Dill
Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius
Published by Good Press, 2020
EAN 4064066101800
Table of Contents
THE ARISTOCRACY UNDER THE TERROR
THE CIRCLE OF THE YOUNGER PLINY
THE COLLEGES AND PLEBEIAN LIFE
NEC PHILOSOPHIA SINE VIRTUTE EST NEC SINE. PHILOSOPHIA VIRTUS
ADSCENDENTIBUS DI MANUM PORRIGUNT
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PREFACE
There must always be something arbitrary in the choice and isolation of a period of social history for special study. No period can, from one point of view, be broken off and isolated from the immemorial influences which have moulded it, from the succession of coming ages which it will help to fashion. And this is specially true of the history of a race at once so aggressive, yet so tenacious of the past, as the Roman. The national fibre was so tough, and its tone and sentiment so conservative under all external changes, that when a man knows any considerable period of Roman social history, he may almost, without paradox, be said to know a great deal of it from Romulus to Honorius.
Yet, as in the artistic drama there must be a beginning and an end, although the action can only be ideally severed from what has preceded and what is to follow in actual life, so a limited space in СКАЧАТЬ