TAILIEUCHUNG - Ancient Rome The Lives of Great Men

More than two thousand years ago, at a time when the people in the British Isles and in most parts of Western Europe were living the lives of savages, occupied in fighting, hunting, and fishing, dwelling in rude huts, clad in skins, ignorant of everything that we call civilization, Rome was the centre of a world in many ways as civilized as ours is now, over which the Roman people ruled. The men who dwelt in this one city, built on seven hills on the banks of the river Tiber, gradually conquered all Italy. Then they became masters of the lands round the Mediterranean Sea:. | Ancient Rome by Mary Agnes Hamilton 1 Ancient Rome by Mary Agnes Hamilton The Project Gutenberg EBook of Ancient Rome by Mary Agnes Hamilton This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title Ancient Rome The Lives of Great Men Author Mary Agnes Hamilton Release Date October 3 2010 EBook 34025 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ANCIENT ROME Ancient Rome by Mary Agnes Hamilton 2 Produced by Louise Hope D Alexander Juliet Sutherland Hâkon Hope and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http This e-text comes in three forms UTF-8 Latin-1 and ASCII. Use the one that works best on your text reader. --In the UTF-8 version quotation marks and apostrophes are curly or angled. --In the Latin-1 version the word interred has an accent on the e citations use the section mark always in pairs and the names on the title page are separated by raised dots at mid-line. --In the ASCII-7 or rock-bottom version section marks are rendered as the word Secs. and the raised dots will display as a simple period. Typographical errors are listed at the end of the e-text. Illustration RUINS OF A ROMAN TOWN--POMPEII Illustration ROME AND THE TIBER ANCIENT ROME The Lives of Great Men told by MARY AGNES HAMILTON Brutus and Tarquin Lucretia Mucius Cloelia Regulus Marcus Curtius Coriolanus Volumnia Pyrrhus Fabricius Hamilcar Hannibal Flaminius Fabius Marcellus The Scipios The Gracchi Cato Marius Drusus Sulla Mithridates Lucullus Pompeius Crassus Cicero Caesar OXFORD AT THE CLARENDON PRESS London Edinburgh Glasgow Copenhagen New York Toronto Melbourne Cape Town Bombay Calcutta Madras Shanghai OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Humphrey Milford 1922 CONTENTS added by transcriber I INTRODUCTORY The People and City of Rome II The Early Heroes .

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• Coriolanus
• Brutus and Tarquin
• Mucius and Cloelia
• Pyrrhus and Fabricius
• Marcus Curtius
• Cloelias Heroism