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Roman History
Roman history includes the early history of the city of Rome as well as the civilization of ancient Rome, covering a period spanning from the traditional date for the founding Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Eastern Roman Empire in the 15th century AD. Roman history has been influential on the modern world, especially in the history of the Catholic Church, and Roman law has influenced many modern legal systems.
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That freedom, the plunging back into the ancient past, appears always to have heightened his alienation from the present. To sure his love for classical Latin didn't lead him to idealize, as some of his contemporaries did Ancient Roman history, Poggio understand that history had it's full measure of full folly and wickedness. But he was aware that the city in which he lived was a pathetic shadow of it's past glory.
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― The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
― The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
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Alaric now at this moment of supreme crisis, coming down to the rough shore and seeing the howling waves, raised his hand to heaven and called out that the Gulf of Corinth should freeze!
It froze!
And the Goths, shattering the last scrim of Roman interceptors, abandoned their horses and crossed the ice on foot!
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― The Fall of Rome
― The Fall of Rome
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