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Romulus Serapis Classics
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Author : Jacob Abbott
language : en
Publisher: Serapis Classics
Release Date : 2017-10-19
Romulus Serapis Classics written by Jacob Abbott and has been published by Serapis Classics this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-19 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
SOME men are renowned in history on account of the extraordinary powers and capacities which they exhibited in the course of their career, or the intrinsic greatness of the deeds which they performed. Others, without having really achieved any thing in itself very great or wonderful, have become widely known to mankind by reason of the vast consequences which, in the subsequent course of events, resulted from their doings. Men of this latter class are conspicuous rather than great. From among thousands of other men equally exalted in character with themselves, they are brought out prominently to the notice of mankind only in consequence of the strong light reflected, by great events subsequently occurring, back upon the position where they happened to stand. The celebrity of Romulus seems to be of this latter kind. He founded a city. A thousand other men have founded cities; and in doing their work have evinced perhaps as much courage, sagacity, and mental power as Romulus displayed. The city of Romulus, however, became in the end the queen and mistress of the world. It rose to so exalted a position of influence and power, and retained its ascendency so long, that now for twenty centuries every civilized nation in the western world have felt a strong interest in every thing pertaining to its history, and have been accustomed to look back with special curiosity to the circumstances of its origin. In consequence of this it has happened that though Romulus, in his actual day, performed no very great exploits, and enjoyed no pre-eminence above the thousand other half-savage chieftains of his class, whose names have been long forgotten, and very probably while he lived never dreamed of any extended fame, yet so brilliant is the illumination which the subsequent events of history have shed upon his position and his doings, that his name and the incidents of his life have been brought out very conspicuously to view, and attract very strongly the attention of mankind...
Stories From The History Of Rome Serapis Classics
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Author : Emily Beesly
language : en
Publisher: Serapis Classics
Release Date : 2017-10-19
Stories From The History Of Rome Serapis Classics written by Emily Beesly and has been published by Serapis Classics this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-19 with History categories.
THERE once reigned in a town called Alba in Italy a king whose name was Numitor. He had a brother called Amulius, who was a proud and wicked man, and could not bear that his elder brother should be king over him. So Amulius plotted against his brother. He got together a number of men who were as bad and cruel as himself, and they attacked Numitor and drove him from his throne, and made Amulius king in his stead. They took the sons of Numitor, and his daughter Rhea Silvia, and killed them. Then Amulius seized the two little sons of Rhea Silvia, who were still only babies; he gave them to his soldiers, and told them to throw the poor little boys into the River Tiber. "Then," thought he, "they will be drowned. There will be none of my brother's children left to trouble me, and I shall be king all my life." The soldiers took the two babies in their cradle, lying side by side fast asleep, and carried them to the river...
On The Shores Of The Great Sea Serapis Classics
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Author : M. B. Synge
language : en
Publisher: Serapis Classics
Release Date : 2017-10-01
On The Shores Of The Great Sea Serapis Classics written by M. B. Synge and has been published by Serapis Classics this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-01 with History categories.
It is strange to think of a very old world, when men knew nothing of the great salt sea that washed their shores, and nothing of the wonderful lands, that lay beyond. Each day the sun rose and set as it does to-day, but they did not know the reason why: the rivers flowed through the land, but they did not know whence they came, or whither they went. These men of old, knew one great fact. They knew that they must live in a land, where there was plenty of water. How else could their sheep and oxen stay their thirst? how else should they and their children get food and drink? and how should the grain grow to save the land from famine? So wherever a man settled down with his family in the old days, he chose some place near a river or spring. Perhaps others would wander over the land till they came to the same river, and there they would settle too, until there would be quite a little colony of families all attracted to the same spot by the fact that fresh, clean water, was flowing through the land. And so it was that, long ago, the old stories tell us of a group of men, women, and children, who came and settled around a great river, called the Euphrates, away in the far East. It was one of the four rivers that watered the garden of Eden—a very beautiful and fertile spot. This little group of settlers—known as the Chaldeans—grew corn in their rich country and became very prosperous, while other men were wandering about the trackless land with no fixed abode or calling...
The Barbarian Invasions Serapis Classics
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Author : Pasquale Villari
language : en
Publisher: Serapis Classics
Release Date : 2017-11-12
The Barbarian Invasions Serapis Classics written by Pasquale Villari and has been published by Serapis Classics this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-12 with Architecture categories.
What caused the fall of the Roman Empire? The first reply that occurs to us is this: That the Romans were corrupt and enfeebled by corruption; the Barbarians, while rougher, were also stronger and less corrupt. When the latter had once crossed the Rhine and the Danube, their ultimate victory was assured; the Empire was bound to fall, new social conditions were bound to arise. But what had corrupted and weakened a people that had been for so many centuries a model of discipline, virtue, and strength - a people that had conquered the world? Its corruption was a consequence, not a cause, and was the first symptom of the decline that had already begun. The Empire that Livy had seen bending beneath the burden of its own greatness could not last for ever...
Roman Imperialism Serapis Classics
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Author : Tenney Frank
language : en
Publisher: Serapis Classics
Release Date : 2017-11-12
Roman Imperialism Serapis Classics written by Tenney Frank and has been published by Serapis Classics this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-12 with History categories.
My purpose in the following pages has been to analyze, so far as the fragmentary sources permit, the precise influences that urged the Roman republic toward territorial expansion. Imperialism, as we now use the word, is generally assumed to be the national expression of the individual's "will to live." If this were always true, a simple axiom would suffice to explain every story of conquest. I venture to believe, however, that such an axiom is too frequently assumed, particularly in historical works that issue from the continent, where the overcrowding of population threatens to deprive the individual of his means of subsistance unless the united nation makes for itself "a place in the sunlight." Old-world political traditions also have taught historians to accept territorial expansion as a matter of course. For hundreds of years the church, claiming universal dominion, proclaimed the doctrine of world-empire; the monarchs of the Holy Roman Empire and of France reached out for the inheritance of ancient Rome; the dynastic families, which could hold their own in a period of such doctrine only by the possession of strong armies, naturally employed those armies in wars of expansion. It is not surprising, therefore, that continental writers, at least, should assume that the desire to possess must somehow have been the mainspring of action whether in the Spanish-American war or the Punic wars of Rome...
Romulus
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Author : Jacob Abbott
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011-01-08
Romulus written by Jacob Abbott and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-08 with categories.
Romulus and Remus were the twin sons of Rhea Silvia and Mars. They were, together with their mother, cast into the Tiber. The god Tiberinus saved Rhea Silvia from drowning, and the brothers were miraculously rescued by a she-wolf. The wolf reared the twins together with her cubs underneath a fig tree (the 'ruminalus ficus'). After a few years they were found by the shepherd Faustulus, who took the brothers home and gave them to his wife Acca Larentia to raise.When they reached maturity they killed Amelius, the brother of their grandfather, and built a settlement on the Palatine Hill. During a quarrel where Remus mocked the height of the walls, Romulus slew Remus and became the sole ruler of the new Rome, which he had named after himself. He took Hersilia as his wife.To enlarge his empire, he allowed exiles and refugees, homicides and runaway slaves to populate the area. The shortage of women he solved by stealing Sabine women whom he invited to a festival. After a few wars, the Sabines agreed to accept Romulus as their king. Upon his death he was taken to the heavens by his father Mars. He is later revered as the god Quirinus.
Romulus And Remus
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Author : T. F. Dillon Croker
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2018-02
Romulus And Remus written by T. F. Dillon Croker and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02 with Drama categories.
Excerpt from Romulus and Remus: Or Rome Was Not Built in a Day; A Classical and What One May Call a Most Absurdly Ridiculous; In One Act; Being an Attempt at Something Founded on Roman History To be forced to appear once again on the scene, Which we cannot as pastime regard. For every day, sure as the clock, Somebody's head may be on the block. [master OF the guard enters. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
From Romulus To Romulus Augustulus
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Author : Rose Williams
language : en
Publisher: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
Release Date : 2008-06-01
From Romulus To Romulus Augustulus written by Rose Williams and has been published by Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06-01 with History categories.
Romulus And Remus
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Author : Geraldine McCaughrean
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Romulus And Remus written by Geraldine McCaughrean and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with categories.
Tells the story of the founding of Rome.
A Dictionary Of Ancient Classical And Scriptural Proper Names
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Author : Thomas Browne (LL.D.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1812
A Dictionary Of Ancient Classical And Scriptural Proper Names written by Thomas Browne (LL.D.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1812 with Classical dictionaries categories.