Rome forms no exception to the general rule that nations, like individuals, grow by contact with the outside world. In the middle of the five centuries of her republic came the Punic wars and the intimate association with Greece which made the last half of her history as a republic so different from the first half; and in the kingdom, which preceded the republic, there was a similar coming of foreign influence, which made the later kingdom with its semi-historical names of the Tarquins and Servius Tullius so different from the earlier kingdom with its altogether legendary Romulus, Numa,...
Rome forms no exception to the general rule that nations, like individuals, grow by contact with the outside world. In the middle of the five centurie...
Selections From the Roman Elegiac Poets by Jesse Benedict Carter. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1900 and may have some imperfections such as marks or hand-written notes.
Selections From the Roman Elegiac Poets by Jesse Benedict Carter. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1900 and may have some...