Quotes About History

Gaius was born in 20 B.C. and Lucius in 17.

THE GREAT-UNCLE 48–47 B.C.

the Romans were regarded as unwanted occupiers and a plot was formed to entrap and destroy the legions.

The ringleader was a young Germanic chieftain, known to us only by his Romanized name of Arminius.

terrible penalty exacted on the survivors of Spartacus' final defeat: thousands were crucified

Octavius was already married to a woman of whom history has recorded nothing except for her name, Ancharia.

he married Atia, a member of the Julian family.

The Julii traced their ancestry to before the city's foundation, traditionally set at 753 B.C.

Of the three legions' fifteen thousand men, few survived to tell the tale.

because I believe that each generation should have a chance to see a giant figure of the past from the perspective of its own time and circumstances.

he made no attempt to recover Germania as a Roman province, and the empire was never again to reach beyond the Rhine.

In late 45 B.C., the eighteen-year-old Gaius Octavius settled into lodgings at Apollonia.

He was accompanied by Agrippa and another early friend, Quintus Salvidienus Rufus

But now the idea that Rome had an imperial destiny was one of the ways by which the regime justified itself in the public mind.

It is possible that Octavian arranged for Cleopatra's murder and put about the fiction that she killed herself.

Thucydides is the greatest writer of history in history. In fact, he is so good that we are trapped inside his version of events.

The first and foremost of these was the tomb of Alexander the Great, which stood at the crossroads of the city's two main avenues.

Antony's final mistake was to let his slow baggage train

The difficulty of reconciling the existence of evil with God's alleged omnipotence and mercy has, it can plausibly be argued, defeated every orthodox theologian in the history of monotheism.

What's past is prologue. William Shakespeare, The Tempest Don't bother me with all that history crap. It just gets in the way of action! United States Army colonel, Vietnam, mid-1960s

He was a commander in the Russian army at a time when the Russians were our enemies and still part of the Soviet Union . This wasn't very long ago, Alex.The collapse of communism. It was only in 1989 that the Berlin Wall came down." She stopped. "I suppose none of this means very much to you." "Well, it wouldn't," Alex said. "I was only two years old.

Why does anyone take photographs ever? We never look at them anymore.

His parents were Turkish Cypriots who had emigrated to the UK in the seventies, fleeing ethnic fighting and terrorism.

Just because something is tradition doesn't make it right.