Identifier: grandeurthatwasr00stobrich (find matches)
Title: The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Stobart, J. C. (John Clarke), 1878-1933
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Publisher: London, Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd
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phictyony, the oldest surviving institution inEurope, became the basis of a Panhellenic confederacy whichmet annually for religious purposes under Roman patronage, asort of Eisteddfod combining religion with culture. It sacri-ficed to Caesar, and here, too, we find a president called Helladarch. But although Greece had liberty and peace,something was amiss with her. Her shrunken population con-tinued to decline. In Strabos Geography, Thebes is a merevillage. Crossing the water we find that the newly conquered king-dom of Egypt was the key to the whole position of Augustus,It was the wealth of Egypt which had reconciled Rome tomonarchy and it was by means of that wealth that he continuedto hold the allegiance of his subjects. Like Greece it had anancient civilisation which impressed the Romans as somethingbeyond their comprehension. Alexandria, in particular, as thegateway to the wealth of Egypt, and as the greatest existingcentre of Greek culture, not to mention its huge population202
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AUGUSTUS and commercial advantages, seemed to the Romans a reallydangerous rival. The fear of that rivalry had been felt veryacutely at Rome when news came of the ambitious schemes ofCleopatra and the subservience of Antony. Augustus wasreally heading something like a national crusade when hedeclared war upon them. The same fears now actuated himin settling the treatment of Egypt as a province. Though hewrites I added Egypt to the Roman empire, he treated itrather as an imperial domain under a prefect or viceroy closelyattached to his interests. Its first prefect was CorneliusCallus, a knight from the Gallic colony of Frejus, a poet him-self and a friend of Vergil. Cornelius Callus was in fact thehero of the famous eclogue : neget quis cannina Gallo Pit wasspecially ordained that no senator might visit Egypt withoutthe express permission of Caesar. The native Egyptians werealready overridden by a Greek aristocracy dating fromAlexanders conquest. They had no rights, and no nationalityw

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