WITH ADDITIONAL CITATIONS FROM
J. J. AMPÈRE, FRIEDRICH BLUHME, GEORGE W. BOTSFORD, A. BOUCHE-LECLERCQ,
KURT BREYSIG, R. W. BROWN, R. BURN, DION CHRYSOSTOM, JACQUES FRANÇOIS
DENIS, JEAN VICTOR DURUY, T. H. DYER, EPICTETUS, A. ESMEIN,
E. A. FREEMAN, G. C. FISKE, GABRIEL H. GAILLARD,
OLIVER GOLDSMITH, ALBERT GUELDENPENNING,
OSCAR JÄGER, JULIAN, THOMAS KEIGHTLEY,
GEORGE LONG, J. N. MADVIG,
MARCUS AURELIUS, VALERIUS MAXIMUS, ARTHUR MURPHY, PHILON, S. REINHARDT,
J. ERNEST RENAN, JOHANN HEINRICH KARL FRIEDRICH HERMANN SCHILLER,
K. W. F. VON SCHLEGEL, F. C. SCHLOSSER, ALBERT SCHWEGLER, L. ANNÆUS
SENECA, M. ANNÆUS SENECA, J. Y. SHEPPARD, JAMES SIME, H. W.
STÖLL, H. TAINE, AMÉDÉE THIERRY, VIRGIL, L. WIEGANDT,
EDUARD VOX WIETERSHEIM, H. S. WILLIAMS, R. H.
WRIGHTSON, XIPHILINUS, K. S. ZACHARIÆ
VON LINGENTHAL
THE WORLD INFLUENCE OF EARLY ROME
Written Specially for the Present Work
By DR. EDUARD MEYER
Professor of Ancient History in the University of Berlin.
It might have been supposed that with the death of Alexander the political connection between the eastern and western halves of the Mediterranean, which had subsisted throughout the whole course of Greek history, was severed except for such occasional and superficial points of contact as, in the nature of things, had never been wholly lacking. As a matter of fact, the West was left to its own devices. But it presently became evident that the development which there took place, untroubled by interference from without, was fraught with consequences of the utmost moment to the Hellenistic political system. By abstaining from peremptory interference while such interference was yet possible, the Macedonian kingdoms permitted a power to arise in Italy so strong that in a very short time it proceeded to aim a fatal blow at their own existence.