«Stories from Roman History», by E. M. Wilmot-Buxton

The following is the book Stories from Roman History (1907?) by Ethel Mary Wilmot-Buxton (1870-1923). More information.

1. The Founding of the City
2. The Making of the City
3. The Growth of the City under the Seven Kings
4. The Heroes of the Early Republic
5. The Story of Lake Regillus
6. The Burden of the Plebs
7. The Story of Coriolanus
8. The Story of Camillus
9. The Saving of the Capitol
10. The Story of Curtius, Manlius, and Decius
11. The Caudine Forks
12. The Story of Pyrrhus
13. The Story of Regulus
14. The Story of Hannibal
15. Fabius the Dawdler
16. The Fall of Carthage
17. The Story of Two Noble Brothers
18. The Story of Jugurtha
19. The Story of Marius
20. The Story of Sulla
21. The Story of Pompey
22. The Story of Julius Caesar
23. The Death of Caesar
24. Brutus and Cassius
25. The Story of Mark Antony
26. The Story of Augustus Caesar
27. The Fall of the Roman Empire

Preface

It is hoped that these stories will serve the same purpose as the companion volume Easy Stories from English History, i.e. to give an outline picture of the history of Rome from her foundation to her fall. It is now fairly well established that for beginners nothing is wanted of the nature of involved details, but rather a vivid picture of stirring events, containing as much as possible of the human element. With this end in view, the stories have been grouped, in most cases, around the personality of
some great man.

While dates have not been obtruded upon the notice of the young reader, the stories have been treated in strictly chronological order, and a slight chain of connection has been established between them. This seems all that can be done to show the development of a country with beginners, but the study of the stories in this order will at least enable them to “place” the most notable characters and the events with which they are connected in their right period.

It is often objected that, if the complete story of Rome is taught as history, there is much which the child has to unlearn when he is older, as being of the nature of fable rather than fact. The stories have, in this book, been separated into two classes, the legends and the true stories of Rome. But an attempt has been made, in treating of the legendary period, to point out the actual truth, which, in most cases, the fable enshrines in its poetic form. For surely not the most rigid historian would think of withholding from children the charming fancies and fables in which the early story of every country is disguised, and which belong so peculiarly to the period of the youth of the individual as well as of the nation.

Brighton, 1907

E[thel] M[ary] W[ilmot]-B[uxton] (1870-1923)

Source of the text, etc.

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