BOOK THIRD
From the Union of Italy to the Subjugation of Carthage
and the Greek
States
Arduum res gestas scribere.
—­Sallust.
Chapter I
Carthage
The Phoenicians
The Semitic stock occupied a ...
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The German historian and philologist Theodor Mommsen (1817-1903) ranks among the greatest of 19th-century historians. Most of his work was devoted to the study of ancient Rome.Theodor Mommsen, the son...
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The History of Rome, Book III
Theodor Mommsen