The book History of the Roman Republic was written by author Pococke, Edward, 1604-1691 Here you can read free online of History of the Roman Republic book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is History of the Roman Republic a good or bad book?
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Most of the citizens were slain ; the women and children were sold for slaves ; the temples and houses were alike ransacked; and Corinth, finally, was burnt to the ground. The Ach»an league was then dissolved, and Greece was henceforward treated as a province, was subjected to tribute, and was governed by a Koman Proconsul or Prsetor. We have thus related the final overthrow of Grecian independence, somewhat more particularly than the difficulty of the conquest or its particular importance migh...t seem to demand. Something, however, is due to the memory of illustrious names ; and interested as we are from our childhood in the fortunes of Greece, the story of its fall cannot be read without attention. It now remains that we turn to a scene in itself far more striking, and presenting a stiU more painfiil picture of misery and atrocious ambition, the third Punic war, and the destruction of Carthage. Statft of Since the time at which Hannibal was obhged to abandon his Carthage. cotmtry, by the animosity of those whose corruptions he had exposed 1 Polyb.
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