Thus ended the stormy generation which had opened with the assassination of the Gracchi. In the midst of all this confusion, one great historic process had been quietly completed. The old Italy, the Italy of Oscans, Sabellians, Umbrians, Latins, Etruscans,... The Greatness and Decline of Rome - Página 105de Guglielmo Ferrero - 1907Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1909 - 510 páginas
...Impero"), begins with the death of Sulla, when "in place of a number of small federal republics, there was a single Italian nation, with an agriculture, a commerce, an army, a civilization of its own." Rome was ready to begin the conquest of the world. The new policy was initiated... | |
| Hannis Taylor - 1916 - 706 páginas
...accomplished fact.91 Thus in the midst of the gravest political confusion a Sulla, great historic process was quietly completed. The old Italy, the Italy of Oscans,...nation, with an agriculture, a commerce, an army, a civilization, and culture of its own, welded together into a solid and compact middle class out of... | |
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