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Pax Romana QUOTES

Pax Romana QUOTES

1 " People wanted to be Roman, and the Germanic tribes who carved up the Western Empire in the fifth century AD were desperate to share in the comforts and prosperity of Rome. "

― Adrian Goldsworthy , Pax Romana

2 " Julius Caesar was particularly ambitious even by the standards of the Roman aristocracy. When passing through a tiny village he is supposed to have remarked that he would rather be first man in that community than second anywhere else, including Rome. "

― Adrian Goldsworthy , Pax Romana

3 " The security of Rome’s frontiers was based on dominating her neighbours, very much in keeping with the belief that peace came from Roman victory. "

― Adrian Goldsworthy , Pax Romana

4 " Yet a relatively small number of aristocratic families supplied a disproportionately high number of consuls, both because of ties of obligation with many important voters, but also a tendency for the electorate to prefer familiar names. "

― Adrian Goldsworthy , Pax Romana

5 " Not only was war banished from the greater part of the world, but internally the provinces were safer and more settled because of the peace brought by Rome and its emperors. "

― Adrian Goldsworthy , Pax Romana

6 " One of the leaders of the great Pannonian revolt against Augustus complained that ‘You Romans are to blame for this; for you send as guardians to your flocks, not dogs or shepherds, but wolves. "

― Adrian Goldsworthy , Pax Romana

7 " Most senior officers were like the men they led, citizens who interspersed spells of military service with normal civilian life. "

― Adrian Goldsworthy , Pax Romana

8 " When Rome collapsed Europe sank into the Dark Ages, literacy and learning all but forgotten, and there was warfare and violence of every sort where once there had been peace. "

― Adrian Goldsworthy , Pax Romana

9 " The security of Rome’s frontiers was based on dominating her neighbours, very much in keeping with the belief that peace came from Roman victory. Rome was to be feared, which meant that her might was paraded as a constant reminder of her strength, while attackers were dealt with ruthlessly and the communities believed to support them ravaged with fire and sword. "

― Adrian Goldsworthy , Pax Romana

10 " Julius Caesar once said of Brutus that ‘whatever he wants, he wants badly’ and nowhere is that more clear than in this episode – a shock to anyone familiar only with Shakespeare’s ‘noblest Roman of them all’. "

― Adrian Goldsworthy , Pax Romana

11 " The Jews had a sense of identity which long predated the arrival of Alexander the Great, let alone the Roman Empire. "

― Adrian Goldsworthy , Pax Romana