Niebuhr, B.G. Lectures on the History of Rome: From the Earliest Times to the Fall of the Western Empire. Volume 1

London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly, 1850. — 490 p.The History of the Roman Republic is one of those few subjects on which Nicbuhr gave two courses of Lectures in the University of Bonn; the first in the winter of 1826-7, and the second during the winter of 1828-9- In the summer of 1829, he lectured on the history of the Roman Emperors down to the overthrow of the Western Empire. In the course of 1826, he did not carry the History further than to the time of Sulla ; but in many parts of it he entered more minutely into the criticism and analysis of the existing materials; and this circumstance prevented him from carrying the History as
fur down as in the latter course of 1828. What is here presented to the reader, consists essentially of the latter course of Lectures; but all that is of interest or importance in the earlier one of 1826 has been incorporated, wherever it seemed appropriate. This combination of the two courses of Lectures
into one, though it does not always preserve the exact form and order in which Xiebuhr related the History, yet does not contain a single idea, nay hardly a single word, which Avas not actually uttered by him. If this should be thought an arbitrary mode of proceeding, the editor takes the responsibility upon
himself; but he must at the same time state, that he considered this to be the way in which the treasures entrusted to his care could be disposed of in the most careful and conscientious manner.