Quotes About History

Then his colleague Pedius won approval for a bill that made Caesar's killing a crime

As many as three hundred senators were butchered—among them Cicero

KILLING FIELDS 43–42 B.C.

Greeks were a religious people and there is little reason to suppose that the priests at Delphi were regularly guilty of conscious deceit or fakery.

Augustus' signet ring was removed from his finger. His eyes were closed.

AFTER PHILIPPI, NEARLY ALL THE men who had assassinated Julius Caesar were dead, and so was the Republic.

Tiberius, being his closest relative, called him by name and said, "Vale," "Farewell.

Officially, a legion had a strength of between four thousand and six thousand men

Livia died in A.D. 29 at the considerable age of eighty-six.

The eastern half of the empire spoke Greek and boasted a culture that went back to Homer.

Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus, for example, had been about twenty-nine

A soldier's basic pay was nine hundred sesterces a year, entailing an aggregate expenditure of 140 million sesterces.

The most important personage who came to light was Oxyathres, a younger brother of Darius, to whom Oxyathres had been devoted.

37 B.C.; it was in his interest to ensure that the west was quiet before he set off against Parthia

his signet ring bearing the head of Alexander the Great.

dozens of tribes and much given to piracy and brigandage.

it was unnerving that a stronghold of barbarism should lie so dangerously close to civilized Italy.

So the final step would be to invade Germany and create a new frontier at the river Elbe.

the writing of a monumental history of Rome, from the foundation to 9 B.C.

It is as if nothing had ever happened on that bloodstained shore. Had Helen been worth it?

One of the consuls in 41 B.C. was Lucius Antonius, Mark Antony's brother

Direct taxation for Roman citizens living in Italy was abolished.

who decided to launch a military challenge against Octavian.

Antony and Cleopatra renewed their friendship at the respective ages of forty-five and thirty-three.