Theodor Mommsen: 51 books

Marco Crasso aveva figurato da più anni fra i capi del «mostro dalle tre teste» senza farne effettivamente parte. Egli serviva di contrappeso ai veri autocrati Pompeo e Cesare, o, per dir meglio, egli con Cesare figurava nella bilancia contro Pompeo. Questa parte di collega soprannumerario non...

I vassalli. Con la distruzione del regno macedone il supremo dominio di Roma, divenuto un fatto compiuto, non solo si consolidò dalle colonne d’Ercole alle foci del Nilo e dell’Oronte, ma, quasi ultima parola del fato, gravitava, con tutto il peso dell’inevitabilità, sui popoli, e sembrava...

La grande incertezza in cui la rivoluzione, coi suoi continui allarmi, teneva il governo romano, faceva perdere di vista le condizioni delle province in generale, e specialmente di quelle dell’oriente asiatico, le cui lontane ed imbelli popolazioni non richiamavano la sua attenzione quanto l’Africa,...

DAS BUCH Vorrede zu der zweiten Auflage Die neue Auflage der 'Roemischen Geschichte' weicht von der frueheren betraechtlich ab. Am meisten gilt dies von den beiden ersten Buechern, welche die ersten fuenf Jahrhunderte des roemischen Staats umfassen. Wo die pragmatische Geschichte beginnt, bestimmt und...

The strict conception of the unity and omnipotence of the state in all matters pertaining to it, which was the central principle of the Italian constitutions, placed in the hands of the single president nominated for life a formidable power, which was felt doubtless by the enemies of the land, but...

With the abolition of the Macedonian monarchy the supremacy of Rome not only became an established fact from the Pillars of Hercules to the mouths of the Nile and the Orontes, but, as if it were the final decree of fate, it weighed on the nations with all the pressure of an inevitable necessity, and...

When Sulla died in the year 676, the oligarchy which he had restored ruled with absolute sway over the Roman state; but, as it had been established by force, it still needed force to maintain its ground against its numerous secret and open foes. It was opposed not by any single party with objects...

El cuarto y último volumen de la "Historia de Roma" trata de la fundación de la monarquía militar. Comienza con la serie de golpes de Estado y de revoluciones que terminaron en la dictadura de Sila, para continuar con el ascenso de Pompeyo y su actuación en las campañas militares en...

The origin and nature of the earliest universities are the subjects of this famous and witty set of lectures by the man whom eminent scholars have called "without exaggeration... the soul of the renascence of medieval studies in the United States." Great as the differences are between the earliest...