 | Hilton Hotema - Science - 1998 - 452 pages
...there stands the unchallenged and unchallengeable statement of Gibbon: "If man were called upon 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... | |
 | Juvenal - Verse satire, English - 1999 - 308 pages
...and Trajan (98-117), the start of the period of which Gibbon wrote that 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... | |
 | Johan Hendrik Jacob Van Der Pot - Philosophy - 1999 - 1020 pages
...Zeit von 96 n. Chr. bis 180 die goldene Zeit der Menschheitsgeschichte: "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... | |
 | Peter Stein - History - 1999 - 152 pages
...peace and stability for the Roman empire. The eighteenth-century historian Edward Gibbon called it 'the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous' (Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ch. 3). The third century, by contrast,... | |
 | Oliver Taplin - Classical literature - 2000 - 620 pages
...accession of Nerva in 98 CE to the death of Marcus Aurelius in 180 cE, the age that Gibbon famously called 'the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous'. The borders were secure, the economy flourrshing, and the emperors just and... | |
 | David L. Sills, Robert King Merton - Social Science - 2000 - 466 pages
...Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-1788) 1974:Vol. 1, chap. 3, 84. 4 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 happpy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian... | |
 | Oliver Taplin - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 324 pages
...accession of Nerva in 98 CE to the death of Marcus Aureliusin 180 CE, the age that Gihhon famously called 'the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous'. The horders were secure, the economy ilourishing, and the emperors Just and... | |
 | Martin M. Winkler Professor of Classics George Mason University - Social Science - 2001 - 366 pages
...fairest part of the earth, and the most civilised portion of mankind. ... 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... | |
 | Will Durant - History - 2002 - 351 pages
...post-Augustan Rome. THE PHILOSOPHER KINGS Hear Gibbon's judgment: "If a man were to be called upon 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 accession of Nerva... | |
 | Josef Lössl - Religion - 2001 - 425 pages
...(vgl. Hülsen, Aeclanum 444). 111 History l, chapter 3 (l, 103 Womersley): '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... | |
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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. 
