Ancient Rome: An Introductory History

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University of Oklahoma Press, 1 juil. 2000 - 320 pages
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The events and personalities of ancient Rome spring to life in this history, from its founding in 753 B.C. to the death of the philosopher-emperor Marcus Aurelius in A.D. 180.

Paul A. Zoch presents, in contemporary language, the history of Rome and the stories of its protagonists?such as Romulus and Remus, Horatius, and Nero-which are so often omitted from more specialized studies.

With an eye detail, Zoch guides his readers through the military campaigns and political developments that shaped Rome’s rise from a small Italian city to the greatest imperial power the world had ever known. We witness the long struggle against the enemy city of Carthage. We follow Caesar as he campaigns in Britain, and we observe the ebb and flow of Rome’s fortunes in the Hellenistic East. Writing with the belief that such stories contain moral lessons that are relevant today, Zoch presents a narrative that is both entertaining and informative. An afterword takes the history to the fall of the Roman Empire in the West in A.D. 476.

 

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Table des matières

The Second Punic War
100
Rome Encounters the East
117
The Beginning of the
141
The War against Jugurtha and the Rise of Marius
149
The Italian Wars and the Career of Sulla
155
TheRiseofPompey
165
The First Triumvirate
175
Civil War
191

The Principate
227
The JulioClaudian Emperors
240
The Flavian Emperors
259
The Culmination of the Pax Romana
265
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Page 265 - If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.
Page 59 - I am here as your mother or as a prisoner of war. Have my long life and unhappy old age brought me to this, that I should see you first an exile, then the enemy of your country? Had you the heart to ravage the earth which bore and bred you? When you set foot upon it, did not your anger fall away, however fierce your hatred and lust for revenge?
Page 112 - give me a place on which to stand and I will move the world.
Page 31 - Lucrctia provide a precedent for unchaste women to escape what they deserve.' With these words she drew a knife from under her robe, drove it into her heart, and fell forward, dead. Her father and husband were overwhelmed with grief. While they stood weeping helplessly, Brutus drew the bloody knife from Lucretia's body, and holding it before him cried: 'By this girl's blood — none more chaste till a tyrant wronged her — and by the gods, I swear that with sword and fire, and whatever else can...
Page 105 - As soon as it was dark the camp was moved in silence ; the oxen were driven a little in advance of the standards. When they arrived at the foot of the mountains and the narrow passes, the signal is immediately given for setting fire to their horns and driving them violently up the mountains before them. The mere terror excited by the flame, which cast a glare from their heads, and the heat now approaching the quick and the roots of their horns, drove on the oxen...
Page 275 - Scipionis sententiam frequentans dixit, malle se unum clvem servare quilín mille hostes occidere. Antoninus Pius used frequently to repeat the saying of Scipio, that he would rather save one citizen than kill a thousand enemies. Zechariah xii. 10. I will pour upon the house of David . . . the spirit of grace. Tacit., Ann., iii.
Page 237 - Livy's history of Rome, Ab urbe condita (From the Founding of the City), rendering the work of this Latin writer accessible to speakers of il fiorentino , he also reveals to the reader his own new way of "thinking history.
Page 224 - luravit in mea verba tota Italia sponte sua . . . iuraverunt in eadem verba provinciae Galliae, Hispaniae, Africa, Sicilia, Sardinia...

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Paul A. Zoch holds a master's degree in classical studies from Indiana University and a bachelor's degree in classics from the University of Texas at Austin. He teaches Latin and English in the Alief Independent school District in Texas. This book is a direct outgrowth of his presentation of ancient Roman history in the classroom.

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