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Excerpt from Attraction of Mood in Early Latin: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Literature in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of LatinNotwithstanding the great activity of scholars in the field of Latin syntax during the last half century, the subject of attrae tion of mood in the Latin language has passed almost unnoticed. The reason is not that the subject is already cle...

Excerpt from Roman Imperialism Obviously the student of Rome's growth must not rest con tent with generalizations that have come into vogue in a later day. He must treat each instance of expansion as an individual problem and attempt to estimate all the contributing factors. He must also give a just evaluation of the opposing factors, which have so often been overlooked. Livy naturally did not devote as much space to telling of the falterings...

Excerpt from An Economic History of Rome to the End of the Republic I wish to thank the editors of the American Historical Review, the American Economic Review, Classical Phi lology, The Military Historian and Economist, and the Classical Journal for permitting me to use certain para graphs and summaries of studies which have been printed in their journals, and especially to express my gratitude to my colleague, Professor Wilfred Pirt Mustard...

Excerpt from Vergil: A Biography The reason for attempting a new biography of Vergil at the present time is therefore obvious. This essay, conceived with the purpose of centering atten tion upon the poet's actual life, has eschewed the larger task of literary criticism and has also avoided the subject of Vergil's literary sources a theme to which scholars have generally devoted too much acu men. The book is therefore of brief compass, but it ...

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Originally published in 1930, this book examines a few of the early Roman writers in their response to their own environment.

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Passenger fares seem to us to have been very low. Passengers however appear to have been responsible for their own sustenance, the quarters were probably far from luxurious and of course loss of life by shipwreck unlike loss of freight entailed no financial loss to the carrier. -from "Chapter XVI: Commerce" In this classic work-an expansion of an earlier 1920 edition-a respected classical scholar sketches the economic life of the Roman culture...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

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