Both Uses of
ancient Rome
in
Of Human Bondage
- He thought the city of the ancient Romans a little vulgar, finding distinction only in the decadence of the Empire; but the Rome of the Popes appealed to his sympathy, and in his chosen words, quite exquisitely, there appeared a rococo beauty.†
Chpt 31-32 *ancient Romans = citizens of Rome between the founding of the city (753 BC) and the fall of the Western Roman Empire (476 AD)
- Charles Lamb, with his infinite tact, attempting to, might have drawn charming pictures of the life of his day; Lord Byron in a stanza of Don Juan, aiming at the impossible, might have achieved the sublime; Oscar Wilde, heaping jewels of Ispahan upon brocades of Byzantium, might have created a troubling beauty.†
Chpt 67-68Byzantium = of the eastern roman empire centered in Constantinople from 395 to 1453 AD and which was influenced by Greek culture rather than the Latin culture around Rome
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.