Quotes About History

Greece, once conquered, conquered her savage victor and brought culture into the rough land of Latium' (better in Latin: 'Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit et artes intulit agresti Latio').

For me, as much as for anyone else, the Romans are a subject not just of history and inquiry but also of imagination and fantasy, horror and fun.

I no longer think, as I once naively did, that we have much to learn directly from the Romans – or, for that matter, from the ancient Greeks, or from any other ancient civilisation.

took no chances with Caesarion, given his supposed paternity. Now aged sixteen, he was killed.

Mine ends with a culminating moment in 212 CE, when the emperor Caracalla took the step of making every single free inhabitant of the Roman Empire a full Roman citizen, eroding the difference between conqueror and conquered and completing a process of expanding the rights and privileges of Roman citizenship that had started almost a thousand years earlier. SPQR

The Latin word for 'rams', rostra, became the name of the platform and gave modern English its word 'rostrum'.

Roman writers tended to take it for granted that the origins of the senate went back to Romulus, as a council of 'old men' (senes)

In short, as the last part of this chapter reveals, the empire created the emperors – not the other way round. Governors

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received a classical education

Graecia capta ferum uictorem cepit. 'Fierce Rome', that is, 'had been captured by captive Greece.

Denn bei historischer Forschung geht es doch gerade darum, Fremdartigkeit zu erhalten.

How far is it useful to see Roman history in terms of imperial biographies or to divide the story of the empire into emperor-sized (or dynasty-sized) chunks?

One of the things that history is good for is puncturing our sanctimonious self-satisfaction about our own moral rectitude

The Nazis understand everything except humour.

Let's make our stand at Wounded Knee, because that place has meaning for us, because so many of our people were massacred there. If you guys don't want to do it, we women will, and you men can stay behind and mind the kids." After

On Pine Ridge and Rosebud they had communal cattle herds and some Indians were becoming ranchers in a small way. But the government was quick to destroy our budding economy. World War I broke out and in 1917 the white superintendent sold off our cattle "because it was needed for the war effort.

Mount Rushmore, which old John Fire always called the "Giant Tourist Curio Ashtray.

But of Paris it can be said that the right bank of the Seine belongs to the world, and the left bank to France.

It never ceased to amaze Lacey how ignorant people were about deafness. Forget understanding Deaf Culture. Forget hearing people respecting them as a linguistic community with a shared history, language, and pride. That was way beyond most hearing people's understanding. Their perspective was that of pity, impairment, and fixing. Lacey was proud to be a Deaf woman, wouldn't want to become hearing for anything in the world.

Those who are wise will take all this to heart; they will see in our history the faithful love of the Lord.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have: the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful than facts - hope always triumphs over experience - laughter is the cure for grief - love is stronger than death

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.