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A History of Rome under the Emperors
About this book
This book caused a sensation when it was published in Germany in 1992, and was front page news in many newspapers. For readers of English, it will be an authoritative survey of four centuries of Roman history, and a unique window on the German tradition of the last century.
Theodor Mommsen (d. 1903) was one of the greatest Roman historians of the nineteenth century, and the only one ever to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. His fame rests on his History of Rome as well as his work on Roman law and on the Roman provinces. But the work that would have concluded his history of Rome - which ran to the reign of Augustus - was never completed. This book represents that great lost work.
In 1980 Alexander Demandt discovered in an antiquarian bookshop a full and detailed handwritten transcript of the lectures on the Roman Empire, which Mommsen gave for many years from 1863 to 1886, made by two of his students. This transcript has been edited to provide the authoritative reconstruction of the book Mommsen never wrote, A History of Rome Under the Emperors.
Barbara and Alexander Demandt have carefully edited the text and provided detailed annotation and explanatory references. For the English edition, Professor Thomas Wiedemann has written an introduction which surveys Mommsen's position and influence in nineteenth century German scholarship and introduces his work for English speaking readers.
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INTRODUCTION
1 This introduction is based substantially on my article in Gymnasium 93 (1986).
2 Winston Churchill, who received the Nobel Prize for Literature for his History of the English-speaking Peoples, and Stanley Engerman, who received the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1993 for his work on the economic history of nineteenth-century America, might be considered exceptions.
3 1816–94, a National-Liberal German novelist.
4 The same publishers who had prompted Jakob Grimm in 1838 to undertake their German Dictionary.
5 Hartmann 1908, pp. 58f.
6 Adolf Stohr writes in the same vein in the introduction to his translation of Suetonius, published by Langenscheidt (around 1857).
7 Wickert III 1969, p. 416.
8 Wucher 1968, p. 202.
9 Wickert IV 1980, p. 18.
10 ‘Der letzte Kampf der römischen Republik’, in Ges. Schr. IV, pp. 333ff.; ‘Trimalchios Heimath und Grabschrift’, in Ges. Schr. VII, pp. 191ff. Both in Hermes 13 (1877/8).
11 Revised ed., I 1827, p. 333; Mommsen's leaflet was reprinted in 1927 and 1954.
12 Wickert III 1969, p. 674; see below.
13 Schwartz 1935, p. 164.
14 Wucher 1956, p. 136.
15 Wucher 1923, no. 32.
16 Ibid., no. 33.
17 Goldammer 1967, p. 136. Storm (1817–88) had been a fellow student of Mommsen's at Kiel; Keller (1819–90) was a Swiss writer.
18 Teitge 1966, p. 125.
19 Malitz 1983, pp. 132f.
20 The date given in Schwartz no. 179 is corrected by Bammel 1969, pp. 225f.
21 Schwartz 1935, p. 218.
22 Schwartz 1935, pp. 190f.
23 Norden 1933/66, p. 654.
24 Bammel 1969, p. 224.
25 Prix Nobel 1902, pp. 34ff.
26 Kornemann 1938/9; Heuss 1960.
27 Bleicken 1978.
28 Bengston 1967 (to AD 284); Christ 1988 (to AD 337); Demandt 1988 (from AD 284).
29 Wickert 1954, p. 11.
30 The American Commonwealth I–III, 1888.
31 Fisher II 1927, p. 225.
32 Rink and Witte 1983, p. 272.
33 Schmidt-Ott 1952, p. 38. 34 Mommsen, 3 April 1876 to
34 Mommsen, 3 April 1876 to Degenkolb; Wucher 1968, p. 127.
35 Wucher 1953, p. 415.
36 Wucher 1968, p. 132. F.Sartori considered this to be the decisive reason for the non-appearance of volume IV.
37 Butler 1939, p. 125.
38 Malitz 1983, pp. 126f.
39 Schwartz 1935, p. 164.
40 ‘I no longer have the courage of youth to make mistakes’: Bolognini 1904, p. 259.
41 Wucher 1953, pp. 423, 428f.; 1968, pp. 41ff.
42 Max Weber, Jugendbr i efe (1963), no. 165, of 16 June 1885.
43 Hirschfeld 1904/13, p. 947; Momigliano 1955, p. 156.
44 Hartmann 1908, p. 80.
45 Ibid., p. 141.
46 Wickert III 1969, p. 670; Heuss 1 956, pp. 253ff.; Sartori 1963, p. 86.
47 Mommsen, RA, p. 352; Malitz 1983, p. 133.
48 Wilamowitz 1918/72, pp. 35ff.; Wucher 1968, p. 134.
49 Hartmann 1908, p. 81. On Mommsen's relationship to Christianity see below.
50 Teitge 1966, p. 32.
51 Zahn-Harnack 1950; Croke 1985, p. 279. Cf. already Bolognini 1904, p. 258.
52 Adolf von Harnack (1851–1930) was a patristics scholar and liberal theologian.
Appointed Professor of Protestant Theology at Berlin by Bismarck in 1888, he saw the Christian faith as developing through time within particular historical contexts.
53 Verhandlungen, 1901, pp. 142, 147f.
54 A reference to Aurelius Victor (5,2): ‘quinquennium tamen tantus fuit [sc. Nero], augenda urbe maxime, uti merito Traianus saepius testaretur procul differe cunctos principes Neronis quinquennio.’ The doubling is a lapse of memory on the part of Mommsen.
55 ‘That almost classic question: why did Mommsen not write the history of the Empire?’ Momigliano 1955, p. 155.
56 Neumann 1904, p. 226.
57 Hirschfeld 1904/13, pp. 946ff.
58 Hartmann 1908, p. 62.
59 Fowler 1909/20, p. 260.
60 Norden 1933/66, p. 655.
61 Weber 1937, p. 334.
62 Bengtson 1955, p. 94.
63 Wilamowitz 1918, pp. 29ff.; 1927/59, pp. 70f.; 1928, p. 180.
64 Meyer 1922, p. 327.
65 Wucher 1953, pp. 424f.; 1968, p. 128.
66 Klement 1954, p. 41.
67 Instinsky 1954, pp. 443f.
68 Yavetz 1983, p. 26.
69 Timpe 1984, p. 56.
70 Wickert III 1969, p. 422.
71 Wickert 1954, p. 12.
72 Momigliano 1955, pp. 155f.
73 Fueter...
Table of contents
- COVER PAGE
- TITLE PAGE
- COPYRIGHT PAGE
- MAPS
- INTRODUCTION
- MOMMSEN, ROME AND THE GERMAN KAISERREICH
- ABBREVIATIONS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
- THE BERLIN ACADEMY FRAGMENT
- A HISTORY OF ROME UNDER THE EMPERORS I FROM AUGUSTUS TO VESPASIAN
- A HISTORY OF ROME UNDER THE EMPERORS II FROM VESPASIAN TO DIOCLETIAN
- A HISTORY OF ROME UNDER THE EMPERORS III FROM DIOCLETIAN TO ALARIC
- NOTES