A History of Rome: From 753 B.C. to A.D. 410Methuen, 1935 - 456 pagine |
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Pagina 293
... Nero himself was a youth of only seventeen years of age with a strong taste for rollicking horseplay . His old tutor's influence seems to have had but superficial effects ; for , truth to tell , Seneca was something of a fraud . He ...
... Nero himself was a youth of only seventeen years of age with a strong taste for rollicking horseplay . His old tutor's influence seems to have had but superficial effects ; for , truth to tell , Seneca was something of a fraud . He ...
Pagina 295
... Nero grew to manhood , the sense of power went to his head and he became recklessly wilful . One of the first victims of his self - assertion was his own mother . Agrippina's calculation had been that , with her son on the throne , she ...
... Nero grew to manhood , the sense of power went to his head and he became recklessly wilful . One of the first victims of his self - assertion was his own mother . Agrippina's calculation had been that , with her son on the throne , she ...
Pagina 307
... Nero's unscrupulous bounty to disgorge their ill - gotten gains , and thus made countless enemies . He even alienated the mob by refusing to put Nero's hated prefect , Tigellinus , to death . Then on January 1st 69 came the ominous news ...
... Nero's unscrupulous bounty to disgorge their ill - gotten gains , and thus made countless enemies . He even alienated the mob by refusing to put Nero's hated prefect , Tigellinus , to death . Then on January 1st 69 came the ominous news ...
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LAND AND PEOPLE | 1 |
THE ETRUSCANS AND ROME PAGE I | 5 |
THE REPUBLIC AND ITS ORDEAL | 14 |
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