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THE ROMAN EMPIRE 39 coming to prevail in the peaceful Empire, where, too, how- ever, many vices and superstitions of antiquity were still perpetuated. EXERCISES AND READINGS Geography of the Roman Empire. From maps of the Roman Empire and of modern Europe determine: — 1. What modern European states would lie entirely within the boun- dary of the Roman Empire at its greatest extent? 2. Which would lie entirely outside those boundaries? 3. Which would overlap those boundaries? 4. What Roman province included modern Roumania? 5. Compare the boundaries of ancient Gaul and modern France. 6. Compare the extent and location of Germany in Roman times with that of the German Empire to-day.- 7. What are the present names of the districts in North Africa which were once ruled by Rome, and who rules each of them to-day? TFLUENCE OF GREECE ON ROME. A. Holm, History of Greece (English translation, London, 1902), vol. IV, chap, xxiv, pp. 514-24. Greek Culture under the Romans. J. P. Mahaffy, Survey of Greek Civilization (New York, 1899), chap. x. Municipal Life in the Empire. S. Dill, Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius (London, 1905), book 11, chap. 11, pp. 196-250. The Roman Provinces. E. S. Bouchier, Life and Letters in Roman Africa (Oxford, 1913), pp.1-21. F. J. Haverfield, Roman Britain, in Cambridge Medieval History (Cam- bridge, 191 1), vol. I, pp. 367-77- E. S. Bouchier, Syria as a Roman Province (Oxford, 191 6), any chapter. Roman Law. W. A. Hunter, Introduction to Roman Law (London, 1900), pp. 1-15. A good brief history of the Roman Empire in one volume is H. S. Jones, The Roman Empire (New York, 1908). For economic conditions in the Empire see W. S. Davis, The Influence of Wealth in Imperial Rome (New York, 1910). The classic on the city-state is N. D. Fustel de Coulanges, The Ancient City (English translation, Boston, 1901). See also W. W. Fowler, The City State (London, 1904). Source Reading. Any one of Juvenal's Satires or of Suetonius's Lives of the Twelve Cmsars will, like Plutarch's Lives and Morals, be found to throw much light on life and thought in the Roman Empire. Both may be had in English translations.