Ancient Rome: From Romulus and Remus to the Visigoth Invasion

TITLE......Page 4
COPYRIGHT......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
INTRODUCTION......Page 11
CHAPTER 1 ROME FROM ITS ORIGINS TO 264 BC......Page 18
EARLY ITALY......Page 19
HISTORICAL SOURCES ON EARLY ROME......Page 20
THE REGAL PERIOD, 753–509 BC......Page 22
THE FOUNDATION OF THE REPUBLIC......Page 24
THE STRUGGLE OF THE ORDERS......Page 25
THE DICTATORSHIP......Page 27
THE POPULAR ASSEMBLIES......Page 28
THE PLEBEIAN TRIBUNATE......Page 29
MILITARY TRIBUNES WITH CONSULAR POWER......Page 31
SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CHANGES......Page 32
ROMAN EXPANSION IN ITALY......Page 35
THE SAMNITE WARS......Page 36
THE PYRRHIC WAR, 280–275 BC......Page 38
FIRST PUNIC WAR (264–241 BC)......Page 40
BETWEEN THE FIRST AND SECOND PUNIC WARS (241–218 BC)......Page 42
SECOND PUNIC WAR (218–201 BC)......Page 43
CAMPAIGNS IN SICILY AND SPAIN......Page 46
THE WAR IN AFRICA......Page 48
THE ESTABLISHMENT OF ROMAN HEGEMONY IN THE MEDITERANEAN WORLD......Page 49
ROMAN EXPANSION IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN......Page 50
ROMAN EXPANSION IN THE WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN......Page 54
EXPLANATIONS OF ROMAN EXPANSION......Page 57
BEGINNINGS OF PROVINCIAL ADMINISTRATION......Page 58
CITIZENSHIP AND POLITICS IN THE MIDDLE REPUBLIC......Page 59
CULTURE AND RELIGION......Page 62
ECONOMY AND SOCIETY......Page 67
SOCIAL CHANGES......Page 73
ROME AND ITALY......Page 75
AFTERMATH OF VICTORIES......Page 78
THE REFORM MOVEMENT OF THE GRACCHI (133–121 BC)......Page 79
THE PROGRAM AND CAREER OF TIBERIUS SEMPRONIUS GRACCHUS......Page 80
THE PROGRAM AND CAREER OF GAIUS SEMPRONIUS GRACCHUS......Page 82
THE CAREER OF GAIUS MARIUS......Page 84
EVENTS IN ASIA......Page 86
DEVELOPMENTS IN ITALY......Page 87
CIVIL WAR AND THE RULE OF LUCIUS SULLA......Page 88
THE EARLY CAREER OF POMPEY......Page 91
POMPEY AND CRASSUS......Page 93
POLITICAL SUSPICION AND VIOLENCE......Page 95
THE FINAL COLLAPSE OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC (59–44 BC)......Page 96
POLITICAL MANEUVERS......Page 97
CIVIL WAR......Page 98
THE TRIUMVIRATE AND OCTAVIAN’S ACHIEVEMENT OF SOLE POWER......Page 99
INTELLECTUAL LIFE OF THE LATE REPUBLIC......Page 101
GRAMMAR AND RHETORIC......Page 102
PHILOSOPHY AND POETRY......Page 103
THE CONSOLIDATION OF THE EMPIRE UNDER THE JULIO-CLAUDIANS......Page 105
THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE PRINCIPATE UNDER AUGUSTUS......Page 106
THE ROMAN SENATE AND THE URBAN MAGISTRACIES......Page 108
ADMINISTRATION OF ROME AND ITALY......Page 111
ADMINISTRATION OF THE PROVINCES......Page 112
THE ARMY......Page 114
FOREIGN POLICY......Page 116
ECONOMIC LIFE......Page 118
AUGUSTAN ART AND LITERATURE......Page 119
APPRAISAL OF AUGUSTUS......Page 121
THE SUCCESSION......Page 122
THE FLAVIAN EMPERORS......Page 125
THE EARLY ANTONINE EMPERORS: NERVA AND TRAJAN......Page 128
HADRIAN AND THE OTHER ANTONINE EMPERORS......Page 130
THE EMPIRE IN THE SECOND CENTURY......Page 133
TREND TO ABSOLUTE MONARCHY......Page 134
POLITICAL LIFE......Page 135
ROME AND ITALY......Page 136
DEVELOPMENTS IN THE PROVINCES......Page 138
THE ARMY......Page 149
CULTURAL LIFE......Page 150
SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS......Page 154
MACRINUS......Page 158
ELAGABALUS AND SEVERUS ALEXANDER......Page 159
RELIGIOUS AND CULTURAL LIFE IN THE THIRD CENTURY......Page 160
THE RISE OF CHRISTIANITY......Page 162
CULTURAL LIFE FROM THE ANTONINES TO CONSTANTINE......Page 164
MILITARY ANARCHY AND THE DISINTEGRATION OF THE EMPIRE (235–270)......Page 165
THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS......Page 167
DIFFICULTIES IN THE EAST......Page 168
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CRISIS......Page 169
THE RECOVERY OF THE EMPIRE AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE DOMINATE (270–337)......Page 171
DIOCLETIAN......Page 173
STRUGGLE FOR POWER......Page 178
THE REIGN OF CONSTANTINE......Page 179
THE ROMAN EMPIRE UNDER THE FOURTH-CENTURY SUCCESSORS OF CONSTANTINE......Page 182
THE REIGN OF JULIAN......Page 184
THE REIGN OF VALENTINIAN AND VALENS......Page 185
THE REIGN OF GRATIAN AND THEODOSIUS I......Page 187
SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS......Page 189
THE REMNANTS OF PAGAN CULTURE......Page 191
THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH......Page 192
THE ECLIPSE OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE IN THE WEST (C. 395–500) AND THE GERMAN MIGRATIONS......Page 194
THE BEGINNING OF GERMANIC HEGEMONY IN THE WEST......Page 195
BARBARIAN KINGDOMS......Page 196
ANALYSIS OF THE DECLINE AND FALL......Page 197
APPENDIX A: TABLE OF ROMAN EMPERORS FROM 27 BC THROUGH AD 476......Page 199
APULIANS......Page 203
BRUTTIANS......Page 204
ETRUSCANS......Page 205
HERNICIANS......Page 207
LATINS......Page 208
LIGURIANS......Page 209
SABINES......Page 210
SICANS......Page 211
VENETIANS......Page 212
VOLSCIANS......Page 213
GLOSSARY......Page 214
ROME FROM ITS ORIGINS TO 264 BC......Page 216
THE LATE REPUBLIC (133–31 BC)......Page 218
THE EARLY ROMAN EMPIRE (31 BC–AD 193)......Page 219
THE LATER ROMAN EMPIRE......Page 220
INDEX......Page 222