A Friend of Caesar: A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic, Time, 50-47 B. C (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A Friend of Caesar: A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic, Time, 50-47 B. CIF this book serves to show that Classical Life presented many phases akin to our own, it will not have been written in vain.After the book was planned and in part written, it was discovered that Archdeacon Farrar had in his story of Dark ness and Dawn a scene, Onesimus and the Vestal, which corresponds very closely to the scene, Agias and the Vestal, in this book, but the latter incident was too characteristically Roman not to risk repetition. If it is asked why such a book as this is desirable after those noble fictions, Darkness and Dawn and Quo Vadis, the reply must be that these'books necessarily take and interpret the Christian point of view. And they do well, but the Pagan point of view still needs its interpretation, at least as a help to an easy apprehension of the life and literature of the great age of the Fall of the Roman Republic. This is the aim of A Friend of Caesar. The Age of Caesar prepared the way for. The Age of Nero, when Christianity could find a world in a state of such culture, unity, and social stability that it could win an adequate and abiding triumph.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.