. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. Fig. I. RELIEF FROM A SARCOPHAGUS Alinari. Fic. 2. ROMAN AND DACIANPlate 57 Giratidon[p. 224 AUGUSTAN ROME de luxe, they wrote bad verses and sometimes bad histories, andthey practised all the vices. They had no religion and verylittle philosophy. Above all the old Roman family upon whichthe piers of Roman society had rested was now in ruins. Tobe the husband of one wife from marriage to death was, so far asthe records go, a rare exception. This was no innovation of theEmpire. For a century or more men had changed their
. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. Fig. I. RELIEF FROM A SARCOPHAGUS Alinari. Fic. 2. ROMAN AND DACIANPlate 57 Giratidon[p. 224 AUGUSTAN ROME de luxe, they wrote bad verses and sometimes bad histories, andthey practised all the vices. They had no religion and verylittle philosophy. Above all the old Roman family upon whichthe piers of Roman society had rested was now in ruins. Tobe the husband of one wife from marriage to death was, so far asthe records go, a rare exception. This was no innovation of theEmpire. For a century or more men had changed their wivesevery few years for the sake of a fortune or a political set before himself, as one of the most importantphases of his task of regeneration, the moral purification ofthis society. He had provided the provinces with a newreligion which involved a new social organisation. But thecloak of republicanism in which he had chosen to drape hisautocracy forbade him to make himself a god in Rome. Onthe contrary he steadily forbade extravagant flattery. He wasnot even to be called dominus. It is true
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