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The Provinces of the Roman Empire - Volume 1

Theodor Mommsen

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. . .ia after its capture in the civil war; the town was thenceforth for Gaul only what Neapolis was for Italy—the centre of Greek culture and Greek learning. Inasmuch as the greater part of the later province of Narbo only at that time came under direct Roman administration, it is to this epoch in particular that the erection of it in a certain measure belongs.

Last conflicts in the three Gauls.How the rest of Gaul came into the power of Rome has been already narrated (iv. 240 ff.)iv. 230 f. Before Caesar’s Gallic war the rule of the Romans extended approximately as far as Toulouse, Vienne, and Geneva; after it, as far as the Rhine throughout its course, and the coasts of the Atlantic Ocean on the north as on the west. This subjugation, it is true, was probably not complete, in the north–west perhaps not much less superficial than that of Britain (iv. 296)iv. 283.. Yet we are informed of supplemental wa. . . Read More

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- Erik - Apr 24, 2013

Studying the history of Rome as a hobby since taking a couple of years of Latin in high school, Theodor Mommsen's name came up again and again. Although an historian of the 19th century, this, volume five of his History of Rome, still stands as a foundational overview of the imperial provinces.

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