A History of Rome: From 753 B.C. to A.D. 410Methuen, 1935 - 456 pagine |
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Pagina 293
... seems to have had but superficial effects ; for , truth to tell , Seneca was something of a fraud . He could write elegant poems about the virtues of Stoic self - control and the wise man's contempt for worldly wealth . But he himself ...
... seems to have had but superficial effects ; for , truth to tell , Seneca was something of a fraud . He could write elegant poems about the virtues of Stoic self - control and the wise man's contempt for worldly wealth . But he himself ...
Pagina 301
... seems to have taken real root in the West during the second half of the first century A.D. , and was probably brought thither by legionaries returning from service in the East . To soldiers there was a special appeal in this belief in a ...
... seems to have taken real root in the West during the second half of the first century A.D. , and was probably brought thither by legionaries returning from service in the East . To soldiers there was a special appeal in this belief in a ...
Pagina 327
... seems to have been the inauguration of public competitions to which poets , singers , and orators were invited in imitation of the famous festivals of Greece . In building , too , he seems to have been indulging a personal taste for ...
... seems to have been the inauguration of public competitions to which poets , singers , and orators were invited in imitation of the famous festivals of Greece . In building , too , he seems to have been indulging a personal taste for ...
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LAND AND PEOPLE | 1 |
THE ETRUSCANS AND ROME | 5 |
THE REPUBLIC AND ITS ORDEAL | 14 |
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