All 3 Uses of
ancient Rome
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- Recollect the ancient Romans of the Circus, and the sports where they killed three hundred lions and a hundred men.†
Chpt 35-36 *
- Locusta and Agrippina, living at the same time, were an exception, and proved the determination of providence to effect the entire ruin of the Roman empire, sullied by so many crimes.†
Chpt 79-80
- Why should we not spend the last three hours remaining to us of life, like those ancient Romans, who when condemned by Nero, their emperor and heir, sat down at a table covered with flowers, and gently glided into death, amid the perfume of heliotropes and roses?†
Chpt 117
Definition:
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(ancient Rome) Periods of Ancient Rome:
The Roman Kingdom: 753 to 509 BC (from the founding of the city)
The Roman Republic: 509 to 27 BC (with restraints on a rulers power)
The Roman Empire: 27 BC to 476 AD (from the time Augustus assumed absolute powers until the fall of the western empire)
Western and Eastern (or Byzantine or Byzantium) Empires: in 395 AD an emperor left the Western Roman Empire to one son, and the Eastern Roman Empire to another son. The Western Roman Empire was greatly weakened. Rome was sacked in 410 and many think of it as ending in 476 when Germanic allies became unhappy with the emperor and dethroned him. The Eastern Roman Empire survived nearly a thousand years longer until the capture of Constantinople by the Ottoman Turks in 1453.