"Until the fire set by Nero, Rome was not a beautiful city in the modern sense of the word. After it had been burned by the Gauls, it was rebuilt without a pre-established plan, and as if by chance. The neighborhoods were irregular; the narrow, winding streets; the tall houses, mostly leaning against each other, and until the times of the Pyrrhic War ( eighty four years before the Christian era) the roofs of the wooden ones, contributed to making it poorer , the darker the appearance, and the city remained more or less so in the following centuries. At the court of Philip of Macedonia, one hundred and seventy-four years before the birth of Christ, the party opposed to the Romans mocked the mean appearance of the capital of Italy."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Imported from EN Wikiquote
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ludwig_Friedl%C3%A4nder
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Ludwig Friedländer
6 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Ludwig Friedländer →
Related Quotes
"Rome never had grandiose views such as Antioch and Alexandria, with their long, straight and wide streets, cut at rig…"
"However, despite all the defects of its streets and its position, Rome was a city that had no equal, and it produced …"
"The [at table] service at Augustus was very simple, three to six portals at most; among Tiberius, who wanted to lead …"
"An anecdote reported by Dio proves what treatments Domitian's guests were exposed to. One day he invited the most dis…"
"Ludovico Friedlaender, Studii around the habits and customs of the Romans in the first two centuries of the common er…"
"Partly under Tiberius and partly under his successors, Phaedrus of Pieria, a freedman, published five books of Aesopi…"
"Seneca is the most notable subject of this time. In the liveliness and agility of form he has no one similar to him, …"
"Among the various types of poetry, drama portrays most of the Roman popular character. Like all Italians, the Romans …"
"G. S. Teuffel, History of Roman literature, first translation from German by the abbot prof. Domenico Favaretti, vol.…"
"Even as a writer, Seneca is a faithful of his time, who valued splendor more than depth. He wrote in that way out of …"