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The Aeneid of Virgil

The Aeneid is an epic poem written by the Roman poet Virgil between 29 and 19 BC. It tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan prince who fled the fall of Troy and travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. The Aeneid is divided into twelve books. The first six books tell the story of Aeneas's wanderings from Troy to Italy,...

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Collapse of the Roman Empire - Military Aspects

Modern historians explain the collapse of the western Roman empire in the fourth and fifth centuries in one of two ways. One group follows an institutional approach, which finds the reasons in the long-term and looks closely at internal structures. A second group has adopted a political approach and looks at short term causes of collapse. Late Anti...

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The Gracchi

Tiberius Gracchus, Gaius Gracchus. The importance of the two Gracchan episodes can not be underestimated....

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ROMAN EMPIRE AND DICTATORSHIP

ROME INTERVENES ABROAD. Frank E. Smitha [Roman Empire, Republic and Politics by Violence]...

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Collapse of the Roman Empire - Military Aspects

Late Antiquity in the Mediterranean. Modern historians explain the collapse of the western Roman empire in the fourth and fifth centuries in one of two ways. One group follows an institutional approach, which finds the reasons in the long-term and looks closely at internal structures. A second group has adopted a political approach and looks at sho...

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Pax Romana Home Page

Starting with the reign of Augustus and ending with that of Marcus Aurelius was a period of Roman peace that is known as the Pax Romana (literally "The Roman Peace"). Its stand-out characteristic is the polyglot origins of its emperors (known as the "five good emperors" who ruled between 96 and 18 A.C.E. and then the Severan dynasty until 235 A.C.E...

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