Theodor Mommsen Quotes

Theodor Mommsen (German - Historian)

 

November 30, 1817 - November 1, 1903

 

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The Celtic, Galatian, or Gallic nation received from the common mother endowments different from those of its Italian, Germanic, and Hellenic sisters.

 

 

 

If it was in the interest of Rome to extend her conquests towards the East, and to enter on the inheritance of Alexander the Great there in all its extent, the circumstances were never more favourable for doing so than in the year 716.

 

 

 

Under the Julian and Claudian emperors, the Parthians seem to have been the leading power at the mouth of the Indus.

 

 

 

Marcus Crassus cannot, any more than Pompeius, be reckoned among the unconditional adherents of the oligarchy.

 

 

 

During the most flourishing times of Sidon and Tyre, the land of the Phoenicians was a perpetual apple of contention between the powers that ruled on the Euphrates and on the Nile, and was subject sometimes to the Assyrians, sometimes to the Egyptians.

 

 

 

The language of the land in the Parthian empire was the native language of Iran. There is no trace pointing to any foreign language having ever been in public use under the Arsacids.

 

 

 

We have no information, not even a tradition, concerning the first migration of the human race into Italy. It was the universal belief of antiquity that in Italy, as well as elsewhere, the first population had sprung from the soil.

 

 

 

The battle of Varus is an enigma, not in a military but in a political point of view - not in its course, but in its consequences.

 

 

 

The Phoenicians are entitled to be commemorated in history by the side of the Hellenic and Latin nations; but their case affords a fresh proof, and perhaps the strongest proof of all, that the development of national energies in antiquity was of a one-sided character.

 

 

 

In the Roman commonwealth, even on the conversion of the monarchy into a republic, the old was as far as possible retained.