Quotes About History

Livy's worldview was moral and romantic, and most thinking people of his age shared it. In the preface to his magnum opus, he stated that writing history was a way of escaping the troubles of the modern world: "Of late years wealth has made us greedy, and self-indulgence has brought us, through every kind of sensual excess, to be, if I may so put it, in love with death both individual and collective.

Antony's children were provided with additional names about this time

now called Alexander Helios (Greek "Sun") and Cleopatra Selene ("Moon").

Perhaps a third of the population of Italy were slaves in the late Republic—as many as three million people.

UNFINISHED BUSINESS 46–44 B.C.

A great center for gladiatorial combats, it boasted a fine amphitheater

the ruins that can be seen today are of a later building), where Spartacus once fought.

It commanded an empire stretching from Spain (which it had inherited from the Carthaginians nearly a century before)

before) to western Turkey.

In 35 B.C., Sextus Pompeius was executed, presumably with Antony's approval.

Writing on March 15, 44 B.C., she reported that Julius Caesar had been assassinated

Caesar himself almost certainly did not aim at kingship.

In 53 B.C., Crassus commanded an expedition against the Parthian empire

in February of 44 B.C. he had himself declared dictator for life.

The first was Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, a year younger than Gaius.

The Roman month lasted either twenty-nine or thirty-one days;

He traced his lineage to the splendid, mysterious Etruscan civilization, based in today's Tuscany

Ides" was the name for the thirteenth or the fifteenth, depending on the month's length.)

Caesar did not arrive until about eleven o'clock in the morning

His first task was to prevent Brutus and Cassius from taking over Greece

SHOWDOWN 32–31 B.C.

Caesar was cremated on the spot.

Rome became a republic in 509 B.C., after driving out its king and abolishing the monarchy.

The remaining units of the republican army surrendered.