Ancient Legends of Roman History: Illustrated (History Alive Book 30)

The book "Ancient Legends of Roman History" by Ettore Pais nowadays is in the public domain, but a great work has been done by Publisher to this version to make an electronic book that contrasts favorably to the original version. A lot of errors that exist in the free versions have been corrected; proper navigation is available or shortly, the ASCII text has been converted into a proper e-book. And the most important, in addition were added new illustrations that help us to see how the History comes to Life.Ettore Pais (1856 – 1939) was an ancient historian, Latin epigrapher, and an Italian politician. Among his teachers were Atto Vannucci and the philologist Domenico Comparetti. After spending some years in Sardinia, he published La Sardegna prima del dominio romano in 1881. That same year he studied at Berlin with Theodor Mommsen and the two collaborated on the fifth volume the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum that was published in 1884. He began his teaching career in Palermo in 1886 and moved to Pisa in 1888 where he would become professor of ancient history. Pais stayed there until 1899, when he began teaching at Naples, and later the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 1905. From 1910 to 1914 he was director of the Naples National Archaeological Museum and the excavations at Pompeii. Pais studied as a visiting scholar at leading universities around the world and received many honorary degrees, including those granted to him by the following: professor of history and Roman law from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, honorary degrees at Oxford, Chicago and Paris. He taught courses in Paris at the Sorbonne, in Bucharest, Prague, Madrid, Barcelona, Boston, Cambridge, New York, and Chicago. From 1923 until 1931 he was professor at the University of Rome and, from 1922 until his death, served in the Italian senate. Read more