| | The Roman Quest for Secular Order (150 BC to 300 AD) - By Miles Hodges (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | Indeed, by 300 BC the process of Hellenizing Roman culture was moving rapidly forward--especially through the romanticising of Alexander and his exploits, which led the Romans to idealize Greek power, Greek culture, Greek philosophy, Greek religion. |
 | | The Romans did not follow up their victory in such a way to discourage further thoughts of rebellion and in 148-146 BC a final war brought Macedonia under full Roman dominion as a Roman province and the rest of Greece under the full "protection" of the Roman governor in Macedonia. |
 | | Cicero's election as Consul in 63 BC was in testimony of his appeal to this middle class, plus the willingness of the patrician Senators to back him in fear of a worse fate from the populist radicals. |
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