The World of Rome: An Introduction to Roman Culture

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Cambridge University Press, 6 mars 1997 - 405 pages
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The World of Rome is an introduction to the history and culture of Rome for students at university and at school as well as for anyone seriously interested in the ancient world. It covers all aspects of the city SH its rise to power, what made it great and why it still engages and challenges us today. Frequent quotations from ancient writers and numerous illustrations make this a stimulating and accessible introduction to ancient Rome. The book is particularly designed to serve as a background to Reading Latin (CUP 1986).
 

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Table des matières

The idea of Rome 75331 BC
1
Romes new kings 31 BC AD 476
49
Princeps and imperator
83
Governing Rome
112
The life of the city
140
Production and consumption
181
The Roman family
208
The Roman mind
235
Roman emperors
328
Latin and Greek writers
331
Crossreferences with the text of Reading Latin
347
Acknowledgements for illustrations
353
Index and glossary of Latin terms
358
General index
366
Topographical index
382
Index of personal names
387

Roman literature
262
Roman art and architecture
287
The ghosts of Rome
317
Index of passages
395
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Page 279 - Furi, qui me ex versiculis meis putastis, quod sunt molliculi, parum pudicum. nam castum esse decet pium poetam ipsum, versiculos nihil necesse est; qui tunc denique habent salem ac leporem, si sunt molliculi ac parum pudici et quod pruriat incitare possunt, non dico pueris, sed his pilosis, qui duros nequeunt movere lumbos. vos, quod milia multa basiorum legistis, male me marem putatis? pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo.
Page 279 - Pedicabo ego uos et irrumabo, Aureli pathice et cinaede Furi, qui me ex uersiculis meis putastis, quod sunt molliculi, parum pudicum. nam castum esse decet pium poetam...
Page 253 - Have I of all mortals found favour with Heaven and been chosen to serve on earth as vicar of the gods ? I am the arbiter of life and death for the nations ; it rests in my power what each man's lot and state shall be...
Page 53 - ... found Rome a city of brick, and left it a city of marble.
Page 239 - Nearly all our older poetry was written and read by men to whom the distinction between poetry and rhetoric, in its modern form, would have been meaningless. The 'beauties' which they chiefly regarded in every composition were those which we either dislike or simply do not notice. This change of taste makes an invisible wall between us and them.
Page 2 - The end of the Bronze Age and the beginning of the Iron Age were of great importance in our prehistory.
Page 47 - Then prostrating yourself at his feet, he not only did not raise you up, but, dragged along and abused as though a common slave, your body all covered with bruises, yet with unflinching steadfastness of purpose, you recalled to him Caesar's edict [of pardon] and the letter of felicitation on my return, that accompanied it.
Page 1 - Can you legally flog a man who is a Roman citizen, and moreover has not been found guilty? ' When the centurion »6 heard this, he went and reported it to the commandant. 'What do you mean to do?' he said. 'This man is a Roman citizen.
Page 24 - Carthage must be destroyed," to urge Rome on to the second Punic war. Of Greek physicians he says among other things: "They (the Greeks] are a most iniquitous and intractable race, and you may take my word as the word of a prophet when I tell you, that whenever that nation shall bestow its literature upon Rome it will mar everything; and that all the sooner if it sends its physicians among us. They have conspired among themselves to murder all barbarians with their medicine.
Page 24 - Ilium, once a prosperous city, to the empires of Assyria, Media, and Persia, the greatest of their time, and to Macedonia itself, the brilliance of which was so recent, either deliberately or the verses escaping him, he said : A day will come when sacred Troy shall perish, And Priam and his people shall be slain.

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