Roots of the Western Tradition Quotes

“(...) Considering the intense involvement of the typical
Greek citizen in his polis, it seems doubtful that Greek federalism was ever a genuine option.”
― C. Warren Hollister, Roots of the Western Tradition : A Short History of the Ancient World

“Diocletian's most immediate task was to bring to a close the era of short-lived "barracks emperors" and military usurpers...”
― C. Warren Hollister, Roots of the Western Tradition : A Short History of the Ancient World

“(...) the Roman frontiers encompassed virtually all the lands that could be reached by Roman armies and cultivated profitably by Roman landowners.”
― C. Warren Hollister, Roots of the Western Tradition : A Short History of the Ancient World

“Homer was the first literate European poet and he has never been surpassed. The Iliad and the Odyssey were the Old and New Testament of ancient Greece,...”
― C. Warren Hollister, Roots of the Western Tradition : A Short History of the Ancient World

“(...) A cynic might reflect that they had domesticated their farm workers in much the way that earlier peoples had domesticated the animals.”
― C. Warren Hollister, Roots of the Western Tradition : A Short History of the Ancient World