Livy

Romans in one of his odes, “Because you are servants of the gods, you are masters on earth” (Horace’s Odes.) This view, which he managed to portray to the people of Rome, is reflected in the writings of other historians throughout the ages such as Livy. Horace’s Odes were appreciated by educated Romans, and they became school textbooks with ‘few ancient lyrical successors…’ (Britannica, 2015). They also profoundly influenced later writers including Goethe, Voltaire, Pierre Corneille and…

According to Machiavelli “As every city is divided into guilds or into societies, he ought to hold such bodies in esteem, and associate with them.” “A wise prince ought to adopt such a course that his citizens will always in every sort and kind of circumstance have need of the state and of him, and then he will always find them faithful.” In the latter case their government is weaker and more insecure, because it rests entirely on the goodwill of those citizens who are raised to the magistracy,…

Medici rule was restored. Machiavelli lost his position in government and was imprisoned and tortured. Then he retired and lived on the countryside. In 1513, Machiavelli wrote two important books, The Prince and Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy. The Prince is a handbook for politicians. It was to teach them how be a great ruler and how to do be ruthless yet smart about it. Later in life he wrote plays and poems. Niccolo was influenced by many other such as Aristotle, Plato, Leonardo Da…

Brian Friel’s 1980 play Translations tells the story of the fictional Donegal village of Baile Beag during the First Ordnance Survey of Ireland – a mapping of the country and anglicizing the Irish names of the places. The major theme of the play is language, and more specifically how the loss of a language can also help erase people’s history, culture and identity. In the 1800s Ireland was still a predominantly Gaelic-speaking nation. In 1975, only 2.7% of Irish speakers possessed a native…

In the time of Roman rule many ideas tried and failed to intervene with the traditions and ideals of the polytheistic way of life. But the idea that broke through the traditions of paganism was the “cult” of Christianity. Christianity took the Roman Empire and people into a different age of ideals and ways of life. In this essay the evidence through ancient writings and events will portray the transformation of a deeply paganist empire to the strictly Christian empire it became. It will show the…

Poetry has always been a vital part of humanity’s history. It shares a piece of the past while also showing the poet’s skills. One famous female poet of the past is Anne Bradstreet. Anne Bradstreet holds a reputation of being the first female poet acknowledged as a successful New World Poet, an admirable position. Although she wrote many reputable poems in her time, she had to endure the gender bias as a woman. Some of her beliefs were rejected since they were still new to her era. Despite the…

Fig.5.1 The history cannot deny the presence that Hannibal Barca added to the universe, he was a child of Hamilcar Barca in the Punic of Carthage military belongings, for the most part considered one of the best military administrators ever. His dad, Hamilcar Barca, was the main Carthaginian officer among the start of Punic conflict, his other younger siblings were called Mago and Hasdrubal, he was his brother by the fact that he was married to Hasdrubal the myth. Hannibal’s family tree…

Quite a bit of our insight about state strategy under the Mauryas originates from the Arthashastra composed by Kautilya (all the more famously known as Chanakya), who was a Brahmin pastor under Chandragupta Maurya. In spite of the fact that it was composed toward the end of the fourth century BC, it seems to have been rediscovered just in 1905, following quite a while of insensibility. The treatise in its present structure is in all probability not the content composed by Kautilya, however it is…

combat was a religious event for the Roman time. The games and training were stated to have been adopted from the Etruscans, but in national research throughout the years, there has been no written evidence to support that fact. The Roman historian Livy wrote the first known gladiatorial game, which was held around the year 264 BCE. The games and fights were based out of military style fights. The originally idea of gladiatorial fights were supposed to be parts of a funeral…

as the powerful Julius Caesar and the other politicians, before and after him, losing that substantial power is not beneficial for the wealthy, but plays a substantial role in the in the eyes of a peasant. “There was Florus epitome, based chiefly on Livy, and collections of speeches from the Greek and Latin historians, addressed to popular audiences as well as to statesmen and generals. Plutarch provided examples of the effects of a democracy…