Julius Caesar and the foundation of the Roman imperial system . E who pursues his reading fromCaesars death into the periodof the Empire, cannot fail tobe struck by a change whichbecomes more and more de-cided as he goes onwards. Itis not so much the history ofRome that he is studying, asthe history of the civilisedworld ; the history, that is,of the various dependencies of Rome, and of theirrelations to the central authority. Even when fol-lowing the lead of a conservative historian likeTacitus, whose political horizon was not muchwider than that of Cicero, we feel this change inso
Julius Caesar and the foundation of the Roman imperial system . E who pursues his reading fromCaesars death into the periodof the Empire, cannot fail tobe struck by a change whichbecomes more and more de-cided as he goes onwards. Itis not so much the history ofRome that he is studying, asthe history of the civilisedworld ; the history, that is,of the various dependencies of Rome, and of theirrelations to the central authority. Even when fol-lowing the lead of a conservative historian likeTacitus, whose political horizon was not muchwider than that of Cicero, we feel this change insome degree. But it is only fully realised when wepass beyond Tacitus to the reigns of Hadrian andthe Antonines, and when we have learned to appre-ciate the immense value of the fresh material thatthe collection of inscriptions has of recent yearsplaced within our reach, enabling us to recognise in 379 380 yidius CcEsar, the life and institutions of the provinces the reallyessential facts in the history of the Empire. It is when we have learnt this lesson that we be-gin t
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