... , the city of Pompeii was forgotten by the world for 1700 years, until it was rediscovered in 1748, when construction workers were working on the summer palace renovation for the king of Naples (Wallace). Even though the transportation of goods was shortly affected by the disaster, the eruption of Vesuvius did not create significant effect on Roman society, due to the ... the destruction of Pompeii would always be a potential threat in Roman Society, which some demagogue might seize on in the future, it would be the best choice to downplay the incident and make Pompeii "a forgotten city"...

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... by Nithard, an illegitimate grandson of the emperor Charlemagne, expresses the nostalgic idealistic attitude towards the man that historians call the first true European king' and contemporaries the heir to the Roman empire'. How deserved are these titles? How accurate is the praise? It is my argument that (according ... men must obey Charles as emperor as they obeyed him as king, that all men must be good Christians, that no man should steal from him, and that no one should disobey him when they were ordered to battle. Once again, if his authority was never questioned then why the ......

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... Livy thinks the Roman people must avoid to keep away from ruin, but are continuously sliding into. Just as Augustus is re-establishing the Republic as a guise for his control and restoring Rome to the political freedom it had once known, Livy is relating to the population that such men existed who fought by means of the law, rather than with clubs ... all the coins of the Republic (Dio, Roman History, Book 44, 4.1-4). Although Caesar refuses the Diadem of kingship presented to him by Antony, he secretly yearns for the title of King and probably arranged the presentation of the gift to m...

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