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Title: Characters and events of Roman History

Author: Guglielmo Ferrero

Release Date: August 17, 2004 [EBook #13208]

Language: English

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CHARACTERS AND EVENTS OF ROMAN HISTORY

FROM CAESAR TO NERO

THE LOWELL LECTURES OF 1908

BY

GUGLIELMO FERRERO, LITT.D.

AUTHOR OF

"THE GREATNESS AND DECLINE OF ROME," ETC.

TRANSLATED BY

FRANCES LANCE FERRERO

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The Chautauqua Press

CHAUTAUQUA, NEW YORK

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By G.P. Putnam's Sons

Fifth Printing

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Chautauqua, N.Y.

PREFACE

In the spring of 1906, the College de France invited me to deliver,
during November of that year, a course of lectures on Roman history.
I accepted, giving a resume, in eight lectures, of the history of the
government of Augustus from the end of the civil wars to his death;
that is, a resume of the matter contained in the fourth and fifth
volumes of the English edition of my work, _The Greatness and Decline
of Rome_.

Following these lectures came a request from M. Emilio Mitre, Editor
of the chief newspaper of the Argentine Republic, the _Nacion_, and
one from the _Academia Brazileira de Lettras_ of Rio de Janeiro, to
deliver a course of lectures in the Argentine and Brazilian capitals.
I gave to the South American course a more general character than
that delivered in Paris, introducing arguments which would interest a
public having a less specialized knowledge of history than the public
I had addressed in Paris.

When President Roosevelt did me the honour to invite me to visit the
United States and Prof. Abbott Lawrence Lowell asked me to deliver a
course at the Lowell Institute in Boston, I selected material from the
two previous courses of lectures, moulding it into the group that was
given in Boston in No