Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- PREFATORY NOTE BY THE TRANSLATOR
- EXTRACT FROM DR. MOMMSEN'S PREFACE
- Contents
- BOOK FIRST THE PERIOD ANTERIOR TO THE ABOLITION OF THE MONARCHY
- CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER II THE EARLIEST MIGRATIONS INTO ITALY
- CHAPTER III THE SETTLEMENTS OF THE LATINS
- CHAPTER IV THE BEGINNINGS OF ROME
- CHAPTER V THE ORIGINAL CONSTITUTION OF ROME
- CHAPTER VI THE NON-BURGESSES AND THE REFORMED CONSTITUTION
- CHAPTER VII THE HEGEMONY OF ROME IN LATIUM
- CHAPTER VIII THE UMBRO-SABELLIAN STOCK—BEGINNINGS OF THE SAMNITES
- CHAPTER IX THE ETRUSCANS
- CHAPTER X THE HELLENES IN ITALY.—MARITIME SUPREMACY OF THE TUSCANS AND CARTHAGINIANS
- CHAPTER XI LAW AND JUSTICE
- CHAPTER XII RELIGION
- CHAPTER XIII AGRICULTURE, TRADE, AND COMMERCE
- CHAPTER XIV MEASURING AND WRITING
- CHAPTER XV ART
- BOOK SECOND FROM THE ABOLITION OF THE MONARCHY IN ROME TO THE UNION OF ITALY
- APPENDIX: ON THE PATRICIAN CLAUDII
- ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS
CHAPTER XI - LAW AND JUSTICE
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2010
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- PREFATORY NOTE BY THE TRANSLATOR
- EXTRACT FROM DR. MOMMSEN'S PREFACE
- Contents
- BOOK FIRST THE PERIOD ANTERIOR TO THE ABOLITION OF THE MONARCHY
- CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER II THE EARLIEST MIGRATIONS INTO ITALY
- CHAPTER III THE SETTLEMENTS OF THE LATINS
- CHAPTER IV THE BEGINNINGS OF ROME
- CHAPTER V THE ORIGINAL CONSTITUTION OF ROME
- CHAPTER VI THE NON-BURGESSES AND THE REFORMED CONSTITUTION
- CHAPTER VII THE HEGEMONY OF ROME IN LATIUM
- CHAPTER VIII THE UMBRO-SABELLIAN STOCK—BEGINNINGS OF THE SAMNITES
- CHAPTER IX THE ETRUSCANS
- CHAPTER X THE HELLENES IN ITALY.—MARITIME SUPREMACY OF THE TUSCANS AND CARTHAGINIANS
- CHAPTER XI LAW AND JUSTICE
- CHAPTER XII RELIGION
- CHAPTER XIII AGRICULTURE, TRADE, AND COMMERCE
- CHAPTER XIV MEASURING AND WRITING
- CHAPTER XV ART
- BOOK SECOND FROM THE ABOLITION OF THE MONARCHY IN ROME TO THE UNION OF ITALY
- APPENDIX: ON THE PATRICIAN CLAUDII
- ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS
Summary
Modern character of Italian culture.
History, as such, cannot reproduce the life of a people in the infinite variety of its details; it must be content with exhibiting the development of that life as a whole. The doings and dealings, the thoughts and imaginings of the individual, however strongly they may reflect the characteristics of the national mind, form no part of history. Nevertheless it seems necessary to make some attempt to indicate (although it were only in the most general outlines) the features of individual life in the case of those earlier ages which are, so far as history is concerned, all but lost in oblivion; for it is in this field of research alone that we acquire some idea of the breadth of the gulf which separates our modes of thinking and feeling from those of the civilized nations of antiquity. Tradition, with its confused mass of national names and its dim legends, resembles withered leaves which we with difficulty recognize to have once been green. Instead of threading that dreary maze, and attempting to classify those offscourings of humanity, the Chones and Œnotriaus, the Siculi and the Pelasgi, it will be more to the purpose to inquire how the life of the people in ancient Italy expressed itself, practically, in their jurisprudence and, ideally, in their religion; how they farmed and how they traded; and whence the several nations there derived the art of writing and other elements of culture.
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- The History of Rome , pp. 156 - 170Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1862