Revival: Roman Life and Manners Under the Early Empire (1913)
Every attempted delineation of the manners and customs of Imperial Rome must necessarily include a survey, as exhaustive as may be, of the spectacles, as the best measure of her grandeur, and as indicative in many ways of her moral and intellectual condition.
Originally, for the most part, religious celebrations, they became, even in the later Republic, the best means of purchasing popular favour, ...
Every attempted delineation of the manners and customs of Imperial Rome must necessarily include a survey, as exhaustive as may be, of the spectacles, as the best measure of her grandeur, and as indicative in many ways of her moral and intellectual condition.
Originally, for the most part, religious celebrations, they became, even in the later Republic, the best means of purchasing popular favour, ...
