Category: History - European
=1. The Prosperity of Rome in the Reign of Hadrian= (117–138 A.D.).--In the year 134 A.D. the great Emperor Hadrian was turning his steps back to Rome after three long journeys of inspection over his enormous dominions. Never before had that Empire seemed so prosperous. No ser...
=1. The Prosperity of Rome in the Reign of Hadrian= (117–138 A.D.).--In the year 134 A.D. the great Emperor Hadrian was turning his steps back to Rome after three long journeys...
25. CHAPTER II=11. The Regions of Rome: Fashionable and Plebeian Quarters.=--The great Augustus divided the capital into 14 _regiones_ or “wards” and these in turn into 265 _vici_ or precinct...
26. CHAPTER III=26. The Great _Insulæ_--Tenement Blocks.=--Perhaps another age will imagine that most Romans have lived in vast marble palaces, moving through spacious halls amid stately pilla...
27. CHAPTER IV=47. Honorable Status of Roman Women.=--Calvus is the lordly senator when his litter swings him down to the Curia by the Old Forum to participate in what is still the most vener...
28. CHAPTER V=65. The Type of Roman Garments.=--How is it possible to mention Roman women and Roman weddings without thoughts also of Roman costume and personal adornment? Seldom, indeed, ha...
29. CHAPTER VI=81. Romans Fond of the Table. Gourmandizing. The Famous Apicius.=--Seldom can there be another age when the importance of good eating and drinking occupies the place that it do...
30. CHAPTER VII=101. Enormous Alien Population in Rome. The “Græcules.”=--Rome, as already discovered, is a city with an enormous cosmopolitan population, and in that population is a sadly lar...
31. CHAPTER VIII=116. Manumission of Slaves Very Common.=--A Roman slave’s legal position may be miserable, but usually he is not under that fearful stigma of race and color weighing upon the s...
32. CHAPTER IX=138. Scanty Qualifications and Training of Doctors.=--People fall sick in Rome quite as much as in every other great center of humanity, but the healing art has not really prog...
33. CHAPTER X=159. Theoretical Rights of Father over Children. The _Patria Potestas_.=--When a child is born into a Roman home the father has complete legal rights even as in Athens to deter...
34. CHAPTER XI“Tablets” are seen everywhere. Upper-class people delight in scribbling down memoranda. The story even runs that Augustus wrote out his intended conversations with his wife Livi...
35. CHAPTER XII=194. Passion for Gain in Rome.=--Much has been said about Roman trade and riches, but this is no place for an economic survey of the realm of the Cæsars. It is impossible, howe...
36. CHAPTER XIII=210. Industrial Quarters by the Tiber.=--We have said that Rome was not primarily an industrial or commercial city. A million and a half people cannot, however, exist without a...
37. CHAPTER XIV=225. The Fora, the Centers of Roman Life.=--Hitherto in our prolonged “day” in Rome we have carefully avoided visiting those famous quarters or buildings which are the glory of...
38. CHAPTER XVThe Palatine originally was a hill of modest height, in shape fairly rectangular, some 1400 feet on the side. Here according to firm tradition was that first settlement by the A...
39. CHAPTER XVI=262. The Army the Real Master of the Roman Empire.=--The Romans beyond all else have been a military people. Their great abilities as law givers, administrators, disseminators...
40. CHAPTER XVII=283. Apparent Authority and Importance of the Senate.=--Powerful is the army and powerful its Emperor, yet there is a body to which they both pay lip-service, and which still e...
41. CHAPTER XVIII=298. Roman Court Procedure Highly Scientific.=--If Publius Calvus does not have to attend the Senate, two places will assuredly devour a great part of his normal day--the court...
42. CHAPTER XIX=317. Roman Festivals: Their Great Number.=--One thing only, besides a long session of the Senate, ordinarily will keep men of the class of Publius Calvus away from the great th...
43. CHAPTER XX=345. Religious Symbols Everywhere in Rome.=--The circus races and the amphitheater butcheries are nominally in honor of some god. It is perhaps Vulcan in whose name Cluentius h...
44. CHAPTER XXI=370. Saturnalia: the Exchange of Presents on New Year’s Day.=--Could our visit to Rome be prolonged across the year we should dwell on such so-called religious festivals as the...
45. CHAPTER XXII=383. Appreciation of Country Life by the Romans.=--No study of Rome can be complete without recognition of one cardinal fact--the intense desire of all Romans to get away from...
46. CHAPTER XXIII=394. Character of Hadrian: Prosperity and Good Government of His Reign.=--Purposely we had visited Rome in the absence of Hadrian; our interest had been in the city and its peo...