 | Joseph Gilbert Manning, Ian Morris - 2005 - 310 pàgines
...Advantages of Wealth and Luxury" The Case for Economic Growth in the Roman Empire R . BRUCE HITCHNER In the second century of the Christian Era, the empire...fairest part of the earth, and the most civilized part of mankind. The frontiers of the extensive monarchy were guarded by ancient renown and disciplined... | |
 | David Dunn-Wilson - 2005 - 246 pàgines
...content to stay at home. Many travel the seas and roads of that empire which Gibbon says "comprehends the fairest part of the earth and the most civilized portion of mankind." 88 Conditions favor the preachers' work. They enjoy a degree of safety under what Pliny the Elder calls... | |
 | David Dunn-Wilson - 2005 - 246 pàgines
...content to stay at home. Many travel the seas and roads of that empire which Gibbon says "comprehends the fairest part of the earth and the most civilized portion of mankind."88 Conditions favor the preachers' work. They enjoy a degree of safety under what Pliny the... | |
 | Alan Gurney - 2007 - 338 pàgines
...supportable. The groundwork is being laid for centuries of speculation, myth, and misconception. "In the second century of the Christian era the empire...earth and the most civilized portion of mankind." So Edward Gibbon, with classical grace, opens his masterpiece The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.... | |
 | Jonas E. Alexis - 2007 - 413 pàgines
...Empire, writes in the first page of his first volume of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: "In the second century of the Christian era, the empire...part of the earth, and the most civilized portion of mankind."164 Rome also was filled with Greek thinking, art, and culture, but gradually pagan practices... | |
 | Anthony Pagden - 2008 - 576 pàgines
...Domitian [96 CE] to the accession of Commodus [180 CE].' It was, he added, a time when 'the Roman Empire comprehended the fairest part of the earth and the most civilized portion of mankind'.123 II Of course, it had not always been like that. Like Europe itself, Rome owed its origins... | |
 | J. G. A. Pocock - 2005 - 552 pàgines
...problem appears by the end of Gibbon's second chapter. In the second century of the Christian Aera, the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilised portion of mankind. The frontiers of that extensive monarchy were guarded by ancient renown... | |
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IN the second century of the Christian ^Era, the Empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilized portion of mankind. 
