City-state and World State in Greek and Roman Political Theory Until Augustus

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Biblo & Tannen Publishers, 1966 - History - 217 pages
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Contents

CICEROS POLITICAL CAREER AND PROGRAM THROUGH
98
THE DOWNFALL OF THE REPUBLIC
111
CICEROS POLITICAL THEORY
126
PRINCIPATE AND RESTORED
141
xu CONCLUSION
159
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Page 195 - Quid? ii, qui dixerunt totam de dis immortalibus opinionem fictam esse ab hominibus sapientibus rei publicae causa, ut, quos ratio non posset, eos ad officium religio duceret, nonne omnem religionem funditus sustulerunt ? Quid ? Prodicus Ceus, qui ea quae prodessent hominum vitae, deorum in numero habita esse dixit, quam tandem religionem reliquit?
Page 182 - ... c'est une experience eternelle, que tout homme qui a du pouvoir est porte a en abuser; il va jusqu'i ce qu'il trouve des limites.
Page 74 - ... strongly pragmatic and moralistic. It should be kept in mind that Polybius had set out to explain why, in so short a time, Rome had been able to dominate the Mediterranean world. His answer, in brief, was — her superior constitution. The erosion of it was obviously a crucial matter. Polybius remarked " The chief cause of success or the reverse in all matters is the form of a state's constitution.
Page 195 - Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the feelings of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of unspiritual conditions. It is the opium of the people.
Page 73 - I aim at is that readers of my work may gain a knowledge how it was and by virtue of what peculiar political institutions that in less than fifty-three years, nearly the whole world was overcome and fell under the single dominion of Rome, a thing the like of which had never happened before.
Page 182 - Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it ; and this I know, my lords, that, where law ends, tyranny begins...
Page 5 - Plunket. But of Burke it may be truly said that there is scarcely any serious political thinker in England who has not learned much from his writings, and whom he has not profoundly influenced either in the way of attraction or in the way of repulsion.
Page 163 - ... Western Europe was not the actual government under which the Roman Empire flourished but the perpetuation of the ideals of Cicero " (p. 164). " The fault in the Augustan compromise did not lie ... in the fact that it afforded an opportunity for monarchy to develop at the expense of the republic. . . . The government of the Roman Empire achieved its most effective balance during the second century of our era. By then the emperor was frankly recognized as the head of the state. The senate no longer...
Page 74 - VTrep rov fj,eXXovros aroxalfifievov eK r&v rjorj yeyo270 seasons when they were afflicted by adversity or blessed with success, deeming the sole test of a perfect man to be the power of bearing high-mindedly and bravely the most complete reverses of fortune, so it should be in our judgement of states. Therefore, as I could not see any greater or more violent change in the fortunes of the Romans than this which has happened in our own times, I reserved my account of the constitution for the present...

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Mason Hammond was born on February 14, 1903, in Boston, Mass., the son of Samuel and Grace Hammond. He began his college education at Harvard University in the mid-1920s and as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. After earning his bachelor's degree, Hammond returned to the U.S. and began teaching Greek, Latin, and History at Harvard University, where he eventually became an Emeritus Pope Professor of Latin Language and Literature. Using his expertise in Languages and Classical Studies, Hammond started writing shortly after beginning his teaching career. His first book, The Augustan Principate, was published by Harvard University Press in 1933. Hammond's other books include City-State and World-State in Greek and Roman Political Theory until Augustus and The Antonine Monarchy. Also the co-author of Aeneas to Augustus: A Beginning Latin Reader for College Students and co-editor of revised editions of Plautus's Menaechmi and Miles Gloriosus, Hammond is an American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow.

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