Characters and Events from Roman History, EPUB eBook

Characters and Events from Roman History EPUB

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Two years ago in Paris, while giving a course of lectures on Augustus at the College de France, I happened to say to an illustrious historian, a member of the French Academy, who was complimenting me: "But I have not remade Roman history, as many admirers think.

On the contrary, it might be said, in a certain sense, that I have only returned to the old way.

I have retaken the point of view of Livy; like Livy, gathering the events of the story of Rome around that phenomenon which the ancients called the 'corruption' of customs - a novelty twenty centuries old!

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