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... Roman spirit - Virgil - A national story - Horace - Lu- cretius , Ovid , and Juvenal - Catullus - Cicero - Cæsar and the historians - The last phase . VIII . THE MIDDLE AGES 187 • In darkest Europe - The gradual creation of ...
... Roman spirit - Virgil - A national story - Horace - Lu- cretius , Ovid , and Juvenal - Catullus - Cicero - Cæsar and the historians - The last phase . VIII . THE MIDDLE AGES 187 • In darkest Europe - The gradual creation of ...
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... RUINS OF A GREEK THEATRE IN EXISTENCE . Photo : Brogi . COMIC ACTORS . ROMAN ANTIQUITIES Photo : Rischgitz Collection . 178 179 182 190 · 191 191 ÆSCHYLUS Photo : Rischgitz Collection . SOPHOCLES · Photo : X Illustrations.
... RUINS OF A GREEK THEATRE IN EXISTENCE . Photo : Brogi . COMIC ACTORS . ROMAN ANTIQUITIES Photo : Rischgitz Collection . 178 179 182 190 · 191 191 ÆSCHYLUS Photo : Rischgitz Collection . SOPHOCLES · Photo : X Illustrations.
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... Romans , were expert road makers , working according to scientific plans , there is in existence no treatise on the ancient art of road - making nor on any other branch of ancient engineering . Such books Not 700,000 separate works ...
... Romans , were expert road makers , working according to scientific plans , there is in existence no treatise on the ancient art of road - making nor on any other branch of ancient engineering . Such books Not 700,000 separate works ...
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... Roman writers began to create original work in the manner of the Athenians . Per- haps the most famous literary ... Romans and until Greek ceased to be the fashionable language of the ancient world . Even as late as the fifth century ...
... Roman writers began to create original work in the manner of the Athenians . Per- haps the most famous literary ... Romans and until Greek ceased to be the fashionable language of the ancient world . Even as late as the fifth century ...
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... Roman armies had occupied the whole of the Grecian Peninsula , the cultured Roman read Greek books , bought from Alexandrian copyists . The only parallel to the recognition of Greek as the sole worthy literary language occurred in the ...
... Roman armies had occupied the whole of the Grecian Peninsula , the cultured Roman read Greek books , bought from Alexandrian copyists . The only parallel to the recognition of Greek as the sole worthy literary language occurred in the ...
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