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Roman Empire
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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- Recollect the ancient Romans of the Circus, and the sports where they killed three hundred lions and a hundred men.†
Chpt 35-36 *ancient Romans = citizens of Rome between the founding of the city (753 BC) and the fall of the Western Roman Empire (476 AD)
- 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 79-80Roman Empire = Rome between the absolute rule of Augustus (27 BC) and the fall of the Western Roman Empire (476 AD)
- 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 117ancient Romans = citizens of Rome between the founding of the city (753 BC) and the fall of the Western Roman Empire (476 AD)
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(Roman Empire) an ancient civilization centered on the city of Rome that grew into a powerful empire ruling much of the Mediterranean worldPeriods of Ancient Rome
The Roman Kingdom (753–509 BCE): from the traditional founding of the city of Rome until the last king was overthrown.
The Roman Republic (509–27 BCE): Rome was led by elected officials and a senate, with limits on the power of any one ruler.
The Roman Empire (27 BCE–476 AD in the West): began when Augustus took on imperial powers; in Western Europe it is usually said to end in 476 AD, when the last Western emperor was dethroned.
Western and Eastern Roman Empires: By the late 300s, the empire was commonly ruled from two courts, one in the West and one in the East. In 395 AD, after Emperor Theodosius I died, he left the Western Roman Empire to one son and the Eastern Roman Empire to another. The Eastern Roman Empire is often called the Byzantine Empire (after the old name of its capital, Byzantium, later renamed Constantinople).
The city of Rome was sacked in 410, and many historians think of the Western Roman Empire as ending in 476, when a Germanic general deposed the last Western emperor.
The Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire survived nearly a thousand years longer, until the capture of Constantinople by the Ottoman Turks in 1453. - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)