The History of Rome from 753 B.C. to A.D. 410Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1941 - 456 pagine |
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Pagina 16
... aristocrats , however , led almost from the first to very great dissatisfaction among a certain class of the population . Not that these aristocrats were what we ourselves should regard as very refined or cultured folk . Rome , let us ...
... aristocrats , however , led almost from the first to very great dissatisfaction among a certain class of the population . Not that these aristocrats were what we ourselves should regard as very refined or cultured folk . Rome , let us ...
Pagina 91
... aristocratic partisans . Two decades passed in apparent tranquillity . Then in 149 an adventurer called Andriscus appeared in Macedon , giving himself out to be the natural son of Perseus and a claimant to the throne . Thousands flocked ...
... aristocratic partisans . Two decades passed in apparent tranquillity . Then in 149 an adventurer called Andriscus appeared in Macedon , giving himself out to be the natural son of Perseus and a claimant to the throne . Thousands flocked ...
Pagina 107
... aristocratic candidates or the passage of aristocratic legislation . v One all too common method was bribery pure and simple . But there were others more subtle . It is a commonplace of statecraft that a mob is seldom intractable if ...
... aristocratic candidates or the passage of aristocratic legislation . v One all too common method was bribery pure and simple . But there were others more subtle . It is a commonplace of statecraft that a mob is seldom intractable if ...
Sommario
CHAPTER PAGE I LAND AND PEOPLE I | 1 |
THE ETRUSCANS AND ROME | 5 |
THE REPUBLIC AND ITS ORDEAL | 14 |
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