Pax Quotes

“a criminal who had been put to death by Pontius Pilate.”
― Tom Holland, Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

“had noted a particularly egregious example: a sect founded by a Judaean named Christ,”
― Tom Holland, Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

“Tacitus, whose contempt for it was sombre and profound,”
― Tom Holland, Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

“it was to be dedicated to a new god: Osirantinous.”
― Tom Holland, Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

“Suetonius, dismissed in disgrace from Hadrian’s service,”
― Tom Holland, Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

“on the successful provision of grain to the Roman people.”
― Tom Holland, Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

“The stability of imperial rule still depended, as it had always done,”
― Tom Holland, Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

“To a man as relentlessly curious as Hadrian, the chance to sail the waters of the Nile at full flood had been irresistible.”
― Tom Holland, Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

“The emperor, informed of what had happened to his favourite, was overwhelmed by grief.”
― Tom Holland, Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

“The drowned youth was the beloved of Hadrian. His name was Antinous”
― Tom Holland, Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

“Such, in Hadrian’s opinion, was the surest way to guarantee an enduring peace.”
― Tom Holland, Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

“concerned, then, that the very name of Jerusalem be consigned to oblivion.”
― Tom Holland, Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

“No ruler has done more for the glory of Zeus, and for the happiness of his subjects.”
― Tom Holland, Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

“With Athens and Sparta at its head, the Panhellenion was fast taking shape.”
― Tom Holland, Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

“were now, under the benignant rule of Rome, joined in amity.”
― Tom Holland, Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

“were now, under the benignant rule of Rome,”
― Tom Holland, Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

“The two most famous cities in Greece, whose rivalry had once been so calamitous,”
― Tom Holland, Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

“Just as the Athenians, under Hadrian’s patronage, had been restored to their ancient dignity, so were the Spartans restored to theirs.”
― Tom Holland, Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

“The two cities had ended up going to war. The consequences had been ruinous for both”
― Tom Holland, Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

“Greeks themselves to hail him as ‘the benefactor of his subjects—and especially of Athens’.”
― Tom Holland, Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

“He had studied philosophy in Greece with Epictetus, a former slave”
― Tom Holland, Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

“Lucius Flavius Arrianus. Some forty years younger than Dio, Arrian”
― Tom Holland, Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

“No one illustrated this better than a brilliant intellectual from Nicomedia:”
― Tom Holland, Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

“Mesopotamia, these kingdoms were called by the Greeks: ‘the lands between the rivers’.”
― Tom Holland, Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

“lands studded with famous cities already ancient when Romulus was born.”
― Tom Holland, Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

“Beyond Syria, flanked on either side by two great rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates,”
― Tom Holland, Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

“The lands subject to Parthian rule were wealthy, fabled and extensive.”
― Tom Holland, Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

“War was brewing.”
― Tom Holland, Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

“It did not require a man of Tacitus’ shrewdness to fathom what this portended.”
― Tom Holland, Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

“had he still been in Rome.”
― Tom Holland, Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age