. Republican Rome; her conquests, manners and institutions from the earliest times to the death of Caesar . EARLY HISTORY emerges from barbarism to civilization. The operations ofagriculture, to be successful, imply a fixed hearth and a settledabode. And this brings us to another feature in the unspoiltRoman character, its intense feeling for home. The attach-ment of the Greek was to his city. The ties of home, in thenarrower sense of the word, had, comparatively speaking,but a weak hold on his affections : his home was the market-place, the gymnasium, the theatre ; and the degradation ofwomen
. Republican Rome; her conquests, manners and institutions from the earliest times to the death of Caesar . EARLY HISTORY emerges from barbarism to civilization. The operations ofagriculture, to be successful, imply a fixed hearth and a settledabode. And this brings us to another feature in the unspoiltRoman character, its intense feeling for home. The attach-ment of the Greek was to his city. The ties of home, in thenarrower sense of the word, had, comparatively speaking,but a weak hold on his affections : his home was the market-place, the gymnasium, the theatre ; and the degradation ofwomen, especially among the lonians, was a fatal obstacleto the growth of a high domestic ideal. But with the Romans,as with ourselves, home was a sacred name, hallowed by theworship of the lyares and Penates, and affording a theme, inlater times, to some of their most gifted poets. Nor was thetie broken by death, for the spirits of the beloved dead stillhovered round the familiar hearth, watching with affec-tionate care over those who remained, shielding them fromevery evil influence, and receiving a grate
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