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... memoirs of such a man would be very valuable for the history of the Roman provincial system but their preservation was too damaging to the Roman political leaders.1 If the memoirs of Rutilius were worthy of approval by Cicero , this ...
... memoirs of such a man would be very valuable for the history of the Roman provincial system but their preservation was too damaging to the Roman political leaders.1 If the memoirs of Rutilius were worthy of approval by Cicero , this ...
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... memoirs in protest against the in- justice done him . Of all early Roman memoirs , the loss of those of Sulla are most to be regretted . What the memoirs of the French Revolution are to us , these lost mémoires pour servir of Sulla ...
... memoirs in protest against the in- justice done him . Of all early Roman memoirs , the loss of those of Sulla are most to be regretted . What the memoirs of the French Revolution are to us , these lost mémoires pour servir of Sulla ...
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... memoirs , and his son Domitian must have had a hobby for them . " He never read anything except memoirs , ” says Suetonius . But of all the memoirs written during the Early Empire whose loss is to be deplored , probably the loss of ...
... memoirs , and his son Domitian must have had a hobby for them . " He never read anything except memoirs , ” says Suetonius . But of all the memoirs written during the Early Empire whose loss is to be deplored , probably the loss of ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE I THE ANCIENT ORIENT | 3 |
ANCIENT GREEK HISTORIOGRAPHY | 21 |
THE ALEXANDRIAN AND POSTALEXANDRIAN EPOCH | 41 |
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