Roman Civilization: The RepublicNaphtali Lewis, Meyer Reinhold Columbia University Press, 1951 - 544 pagine Naphtali Lewis and Meyer Reinhold's Roman Civilization is a classic. These volumes consist of selected primary documents from ancient Rome, covering a range of over 1,000 years of Roman culture, from the foundation of the city to its sacking by the Goths. The selections cover a broad spectrum of Roman civilization, including literature, philosophy, religion, education, politics, military affairs, and economics. These English translations of literary, inscriptional, and papyrological sources, many of which are available nowhere else, create a mosaic of the brilliance, the beauty, and the power of Rome. -- Text refers to later edition. |
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... Natural Questions , regarded during the Middle Ages as a reference book on cosmology and physics , is of little value as a source for the Roman knowledge of natural science . The Apocolocyntosis ( Pumpkinization ) is a witty , cynical ...
... Natural Questions , regarded during the Middle Ages as a reference book on cosmology and physics , is of little value as a source for the Roman knowledge of natural science . The Apocolocyntosis ( Pumpkinization ) is a witty , cynical ...
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... Natural History in thirty - seven books , is a huge compilation at secondhand of the prevailing scientific knowledge of the early Empire , containing 20,000 items derived from 2,000 volumes by 100 principal authors . While Pliny's work ...
... Natural History in thirty - seven books , is a huge compilation at secondhand of the prevailing scientific knowledge of the early Empire , containing 20,000 items derived from 2,000 volumes by 100 principal authors . While Pliny's work ...
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... Natural History xxxIII . xi . 147–50 41 Gaius Gracchus possessed some silver dolphins for which he paid 5,000 sesterces per pound . Indeed , Lucius Crassus , the orator , paid for two goblets engraved by the hand of the artist Mentor ...
... Natural History xxxIII . xi . 147–50 41 Gaius Gracchus possessed some silver dolphins for which he paid 5,000 sesterces per pound . Indeed , Lucius Crassus , the orator , paid for two goblets engraved by the hand of the artist Mentor ...
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ABBREVIATIONS USED IN CITATION OF SOURCES | 2 |
FROM THE BEGINNINGS TO 509 B C | 46 |
THE CONQUEST AND ORGANIZATION OF ITALY TO 264 B C | 70 |
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