Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius
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Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius is a work by Samuel Dill. The preface says there must always be something arbitrary in the choice and isolation of a period of social history for special study. The text says there are traces in Seneca's writings that he had not passed unscathed through the terrible ordeal to which character was exposed in that age.
The text describes a pagan monk and idealist, who would have been at home with S. Jerome or Thomas à Kempis, as living in a palace which excited the envy of a Nero. A listing names Calpurnia, wife of Pliny, together with their ideal married life. The text says citizens record on many a tablet their gratitude to a patron or duumvir or augustal, or to some simple old centurion returned from far frontier camps, who had paved their promenade, restored their baths, or given them a shrine of Neptune or Silvanus.
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- Samuel Dill
- Pages
- 584
- Language
- English
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- Ancient History
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