Both Uses of
ancient Rome
in
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- Through the decline and death of ancient Rome and Byzantium and the Ottoman Empire and the modern states...buried so deep and with such ceremoniousness and such unction and such evil that only a madman centuries later could discover the clues needed to uncover them, and see with horror what had been done.†
Part 4 *ancient Rome = Rome between the founding of the city (753 BC) and the fall of the Western Roman Empire (476 AD)
- Through the decline and death of ancient Rome and Byzantium and the Ottoman Empire and the modern states...buried so deep and with such ceremoniousness and such unction and such evil that only a madman centuries later could discover the clues needed to uncover them, and see with horror what had been done.†
Part 4Byzantium = 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.