Characters and events of Roman History eBook

Guglielmo Ferrero
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 188 pages of information about Characters and events of Roman History.

Characters and events of Roman History eBook

Guglielmo Ferrero
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 188 pages of information about Characters and events of Roman History.

  Dalmatia, the malcontents at, 166
  Danube provinces, the, 88, 91
  Dechelette, the great work of, 91
  Diamonds, the importation of, 220
  Diocletian, the edict of, 88
  Dion Cassius, the historian, 63, 80
  Dionysius, the Greek judge, 183
  Dionysos, the beverage of, 183
  Dithyrambics, the, of Horace, 196
  Drusus, mentioned, 93;
    the exalted position of, 104
  Duodecember, a fourteenth month, 79
  Duruy, the apologies of, 243
  Dynasty of Egypt, the, 215

  E

“Eastern peril,” the, 50 Economic strength, the, of Rome, 224 Economic unity, the, of the world, 236 Education, the laborious, 194 Egnatius Mecenius, the story of, 183 Egypt, the conquest of, 16, 46 Elagabalus, the splendour of, 6, 8 Elegies, the revolutionary, of Ovid, 152 Empire, the extent of the, 217 Ephesus, the city of, 219 Euthanasia, the death of the happy, 210 External policy, the, of Rome, 164

  F

Fabius Pictor, the word of, 183 Falernian, the discovery of, 198 “First Citizen of the Republic,” the, 157 Feminism, the increase of, in Rome, 108 “Festivals of Youth,” the, at Rome, 124 Flavians, the power of the, 246 Flax, the cultivation of, 85 Folies Bergeres, the, mentioned, 129 Fortuna, the, of the Romans 98 Forum, the impressive monument of the, 55 Franco-Prussian War, the, 202 Frankfurt, the treaty of, 202 Freedmen, the position of, 212 French Revolution, the, 205 Frontiers, the strengthening of the, 109

  G

  Gaetic warrior, the rule of a, 191
  Gaeto-Thracian, the great empire of, 191
  Gallia Narbonensis, the position of, 50
  Gallic,
    affairs, the midst of, 73;
    roads, the network of, 213
  Gallo-Roman villas, the, 87
  Gambetta, the love letters of, 40
  Gambrinus, the god, 202
  Gaul,
    the development of, 20, 69 ff.;
    conquest of, 72;
    the annexation of, 77;
    the wealth of, 83
  Gauls,
    the irritation of the, 79;
    the genius of the, 81
  Genoa, the situation of, 23
  German historians, the work of, 152
  Germanicus, the historical importance of, 103
  Germany, conditions in, 79, 165;
    policy toward Rome, 166
  Glass-making in Gaul, 90
  Government, the, at Rome, 213
  Governors, the position of the, 312
  Gracchi, the struggle of the, 17
  Graeco-Latin civilisation, the, 72,235
  Grape-culture, the spread of, 186
  Grape harvest, the abundance of the, 185
  Greatness and Decline of Rome, the, 10
  Greece, the contact of Rome with, 185
  Greek wines in Rome, 8
  Gymnasium, the, at Alexandria, 55

  H

  Hannibal, the army of, 189
  Harbours, the building of, 213
  Hebrew people, the position of the, 166
  Hellenist, an ardent, 58
  Helvetia, customs in, 191
  Helvetians, the, 74;
    the attack on the, 75
  Herculaneum, the city of, 218
  Heritage of Rome, the, 261
  Herod the Great, the death of, 166
  History, as considered by Ferrero, 65
  Horace, the invectives of, 23
  Houssaye, Henri, mentioned, 41

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