The Ancient World From the Earliest Times to 800 Ad volume 2
The Ancient World From the Earliest Times to 800 Ad volume 2
Willis M Willis Mason West
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C. Saw the last territory of Carthage made a Roman prov- ince and the first province formed in the old empire of Alex- ander, together with the destruction of the ancient cities of Carthage and Corinth. 1 The destruction of Corinth was a greater crime than that of Carthage, Syracuse, Capua, or the other capitals that Roman envy laid low. Corinth was the great emporium of Greece, and its ruin was due mainly to the jeal- ousy of the commercial class in Rome. Its art treasures, so far its preserve...d, became the plunder of the Roman state; but much was lust. Polybius saw common soldiers playing at dice, amid the still smoking ruins, on the paint- ings of the greatest masters. 2 A century later, Greece became the Province of Achaea. About the same time, Corinth was rebuilt by Caesar (§ 464), and Carthage by Octavius (§ 175). 348 WINNING THE EAST, 201-146 B. C. [§ 398 398. The Province of Asia. — A few years later (133 b. C. ) the king of Pergamum willed to Koine his realms, which became the Province of Asia.
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