Both Uses of
ancient Rome
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- "A regular Roman nose," he used to say, "with my goiter I've quite the countenance of an ancient Roman patrician of the decadent period."†
Chpt 1 *ancient Roman = a citizen of Rome between the founding of the city (753 BC) and the fall of the Western Roman Empire (476 AD)
- When the pagan Roman Empire desired to become Christian, it inevitably happened that, by becoming Christian, it included the Church but remained a pagan State in very many of its departments.†
Chpt 2Roman Empire = Rome between the absolute rule of Augustus (27 BC) and the fall of the Western Roman Empire (476 AD)
Definition:
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.
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.