WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

ANCIENT ROME

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
If you wanted a history lecture about ancient Rome, which of the following writers would you invite to your school?
A
Pliny the Elder and Virgil
B
Horace and Ovid
C
Marcus and Aurelius
D
Livy and Tacitus
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Livy and Tacitus are both influential and important Roman authors. They have written two of the most influential histories of Rome. Livy covers from the founding of Rome until the Reign of Augustus. Tacitus focuses on the early empire, writing from the end of Augustus’ reign through Nero.

Detailed explanation-2: -He wrote his history with embellished accounts of Roman heroism in order to promote the new type of government implemented by Augustus when he became emperor.

Detailed explanation-3: -There are several fascinating legends and myths on how the city of Rome was founded, all collected by the Italian historian, Tito Livio.

Detailed explanation-4: -Romulus Reigns in Rome Some are of opinion that he was influenced in his choice of that number by that of the birds which had foretold that sovereign power should be his when the auguries were taken.

Detailed explanation-5: -Tacitus was a Roman orator and public official. He is widely regarded to have been among the most important Roman historians and to have been one of the greatest prose stylists who wrote in the Latin language.

Detailed explanation-6: -Writers. Historians | PBS. Rome in the first century was carefully chronicled by Roman historians, particularly Tacitus, Suetonius and Dio Cassius – that is why we know so much about it. Tacitus was a political player in his own right and he observed first hand the last years of Domitian’s rule.

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