Category: History - Ancient
The character of the first Cæsar has perhaps never been worse appreciated than by him who in one sense described it best--that is, with most force and eloquence wherever he really _did_ comprehend it. This was Lucan, who has nowhere exhibited more brilliant rhetoric, nor wande...
The five Cæsars who succeeded immediately to the first twelve, were, in as high a sense as their office allowed, patriots. Hadrian is perhaps the first of all whom circumstances...
6. Chapter 6To return, however, to our sketch of the Cæsars--at the head of the third series we place Decius. He came to the throne at a moment of great public embarrassment. The Goths were...
3. Chapter 3The three next emperors, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero, were the last princes who had any connection by blood [Footnote: And this was entirely by the female side. The family desc...
5. Chapter 5The Roman empire, and the Roman emperors, it might naturally be supposed by one who had not as yet traversed that tremendous chapter in the history of man, would be likely to pr...
1. Chapter 1The character of the first Cæsar has perhaps never been worse appreciated than by him who in one sense described it best--that is, with most force and eloquence wherever he real...
2. Chapter 2The situation of the Second Cæsar, at the crisis of the great Dictator's assassination, was so hazardous and delicate, as to confer interest upon a character not otherwise attra...