 | Grace Jantzen - Family & Relationships - 2004 - 406 pages
...Trajan is often taken as the height of the Roman Empire: Edward Gibbon called it 'the golden age', the 'period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous' (Gibbon 1960: 1 ). For the upper classes in Rome and her vast Empire there is... | |
 | Richard Davenport-Hines, Richard Peter Treadwell Davenport-Hines - Drug abuse - 2003 - 596 pages
...use of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-80). Marcus Aurelius, whose reign Gibbon extolled as 'the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy', was a practising Stoic philosopher but no mere quietist.16 His Meditations, which resonate... | |
 | Roger Burbach, Jim Tarbell - Political Science - 2004 - 260 pages
...historian and author of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, claims that 'if man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation' look to Roman history before the beginning of its... | |
 | Elizabeth Speller - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 364 pages
...Gibbon made a radiant assessment of the period within which Hadrian ruled: 'If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the race were most happy and most prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from... | |
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If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus. 
