 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.  Macmillan's Magazine - Page 4931865Full view - About this book
 | Gaius, Thomas Lambert Mears - Political Science - 2004 - 700 pages
...imperial authority gave formal recognition to his works ;TT and, there* " If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world, during which the...elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus (AD 96-180). The vast extent of the Roman empire was governed by absolute power, under the... | |
 | James Garrison, Jim Garrison - Political Science - 2004 - 242 pages
...both imperial power and imperial longevity. As Gibbon wrote, "If a man were called upon to fix the period in the history of the world during which the...without hesitation name that which elapsed from the accession of Nerva to death of Aurelius. Their united reigns are possibly the only r~ ot history in... | |
 | Roger Burbach, Jim Tarbell - Political Science - 2004 - 260 pages
...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...happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation' look to Roman history before the beginning of its decline in the late second century AD (cited in Doyle... | |
 | 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 much to be said in favour... | |
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