Download or read book Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius (Classic Reprint) written by Samuel Dill and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Roman Society From Nero to Marcus Aurelius Yet, as in the artistic drama there must be a beginning and an end, although the action can only be ideally severed from what has preceded and What is to follow in actual life, so a limited Space in the collective history of a people may be legitimately set apart for concentrated study. But as in the case of the drama, such a period should possess a certain unity and intensity of moral interest. It should be a crisis and turning-point in the life of humanity, a period pregnant with momentous issues, a period in which the old order and the new are contending for mastery, or in which the old is melting into the new. Above all, it should be one in which the great social and spiritual movements are incarnate in some striking personalities, who may give a human interest to dim forces of Spiritual evolution. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.