The History of Rome: Vol. 1 - The Republic

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: In the Beginning

The Exile of
Aeneas

Humorless
Anthropology

Romulus and
Remus

Mythical
History

Chapter 2:
Youthful Indiscretions

Fighting Men
and the Rest

The Rape of
the Sabine Women

Roman-Sabine
Union

The Strange
Death of Romulus

The Answer
to Every Question

Unsavory
Origins

Chapter 3:
The Seven Kings of Rome, 753
– 509 BC

The Second
King of Rome: Numa Pompilius

Numa’s
Reforms

The Third
King of Rome: Tullus Hostilius

The Legend
of the Horatii

Destruction
of Alba Longa

The Fourth
King of Rome: Ancus Marcius

Pillars of
Rome: War and Religion

The Tarquin
Dynasty

The Fifth King
of Rome: Tarquin

Adoption of
Servius Tullius

Murder Most
Foul

The Sixth
King of Rome: Servius Tullius

The Last
King of Rome: Tarquinus Superbus

Freedom

Mythology
and Monarchy

Chapter 4:
The Public Thing, 509 BC

Who are the
Romans?

Establishing
the Republic

Counter-revolution
and Invasion

Chapter 5:
Trials and Tribunelations, 509
– 494 BC

Mythic Folk
Heroes

Victory for
Lars Porsena?

The Latins
take their Shot

The
Dictatorship

The
Secession of the Plebs

The Tribune
of the Plebs

Chapter 6:
The Twelve Tables, 494 –
451 BC

Unifying
Warfare

Coriolanus

Plebeian
Agitation

The Twelve
Tables

Tyranny of
the Decemvirs

Chapter 7:
The Roman Washington, 519
– 430 BC

Republican
Youth

Patrician
Champion

Called From
the Plow

The Myth of
Cincinnatus

Chapter 8:
Decades of Gloom, 450 –
425 BC

Intermarriage
Legalized

The Military
Tribune Gambit

The Censor

King
Maelius?

War with
Fidenae

The Roman
Way

Chapter 9:
A Trojan War, 405 – 396
BC

Casus Belli

Perpetual
War

Marcus
Furius Camillus

The Exile of
Camillus

Decline of
the Etruscans

Chapter 10:
Barbarians at the Gates

Brennus and
the Senones

The Battle
of Allia

The Siege of
the Capitoline

Woe to the
Conquered?

Rome Nearly
Abandoned

Impact of
the Sack

Chapter 11:
The Morning After

Manlius as
Demagogue

The First
Plebeian Consul

Chapter 12:
The First Samnite War, 343
– 341 BC

The Samnites

Marcus
Valerius Corvus

Decius Saves
the Day

Battle of
Suessula — 343 BC

Mutiny in
the Legions

After the
Peace

Chapter 13:
The Latin War, 340-338 BC

Impertinent
Latins

The
Consulship of Decius and Manlius

Abolition of
the Latin League

Chapter 14:
A Phalanx with Joints

Development
of the Legions

The Greek
Phalanx

The Roman
Maniple

Further Elements
of a Legion

Legionary
Tactics

Roman
Discipline

Logistics

Chapter 15:
The Second Samnite War, 326
– 304

Provoking a
War

Papirius the
Shrill

The Battle
of the Caudine Forks — 321 BC

The Five
Year Peace

Back to Work

Appius
Claudius the Blind
The Tide
Turns

The
Etruscans Enter the War

The Samnites
Defeated

Impact of
the War

Chapter 16:
The Third Samnite War, 298-290

The Samnites
and Etruscans Rebel

Everyone
Gangs Up on Rome

The Battle
of Sentinum — 295 BC

Rome
Triumphant

Chapter 17:
Pyrrhic Victories, 280 –
275 BC

The Greeks
and the East

Pyrrhus of
Epirus

Tarentum
Calls for Help

Battle of
Heraclea — 280 BC

Battle of
Asculum — 279 BC

To Sicily
and Back

The Conquest
of Magna Graecia

Chapter 18:
A History of Rome Christmas

Chapter 19:
Prelude to the First Punic War, 275 – 264

The
Carthaginians

Sicilian
Politics

Claudii vs.
Fabii

Rome Seizes
Messana — 265 BC

Chapter 20:
The First Punic War, 264
– 241 BC

First
Confrontation at Messana

The “Siege”
of Syracuse

King Hiero
the Midwife

The Siege of
Agrigentum — 262 BC

The Romans
Finally Build a Navy

Scipio the
Ass

Victory at
Mylae — 260 BC

Battle of
Cape Ecnomus — 256 BC

The Invasion
of North Africa

Carthage
Fails to Give Up

Enter
Xanthippus

Xanthippus
Whips Regulus

Ignoring the
Sacred Chickens

A Backwater
Stalemate

The
Carthaginians Abandon Sicily

Assessing
the First Punic War

Chapter 21:
Interbellum, 240 – 218 BC

Always Pay
Your Mercenaries in Full

Rome and the
Gauls

Rome and the
Illyrians

Diplomatic
Mission to Greece

The Gallic
Storm

Chapter 22:
Prelude to the Second Punic War

The Barcas
Move to Spain

The Romans
Get Worried

The Rise of
Hannibal

The Siege of
Saguntum — 218 BC

Chapter 23:
The War with Hannibal, 218-202
BC

Hannibal
Marches Out of Spain

Hannibal
Crosses the Alps

The Battle
of Ticinus — November 218 BC

The Battle
of the Trebia — December 218 BC

The Battle
of Lake Trasimene — 217 BC

Fabius the
Delayer

Torchlit
Oxen

Co-Dictators

The Battle
of Cannae — 216 BC

In the
Shadow of Cannae

The Death of
King Hiero

The War in
Spain

The War in
Sicily

The First
Macedonian War

Exchanging
Italian Cities Ad Nauseam

The Rise of
Scipio Africanus

Scipio in
Spain

Battle of
Ilipa — 206 BC

Hannibal
Isolated

The Battle
of the Metaurus — 207 BC

Scipio Makes
His Pitch

Masinissa
Switches Sides

Scipio’s
Invasion of North Africa

Battle of
Zama — 202 BC

Impact of
the Second Punic War

Chapter 24:
The Second Macedonian War, 200
– 197 BC

Greek
Politics

Roman
Ultimatum

War in
Macedon

Battle of
Cynoscephalae — 197 BC

Greek
“Freedom”

Chapter 25:
The Syrian War, 192 – 188
BC

The Greatest
Generals in History

Antiochus
Enters Greece

The Battle
of Thermopylae — 191 BC

The Romans
in Asia Minor

The Battle
of Magnesia — 190 BC

Scipio’s
Ungrateful Fatherland

Chapter 26:
The Third Macedonian War, 172
– 168 BC

Macedonian
Dynastic Politics

Another War
in the East

Aemilius
Paullus

The Sack of
Epirus — 167 BC

Polybius and
the History of Rome

Chapter 27:
Mopping Up, 149 – 146 BC

Andriscus’s
Rebellion

Crushing the
Rebellion

Sack of
Corinth — 146 BC

The Recovery
of Carthage

Carthage
Must Be Destroyed
The Birth of
the Roman Empire

Chapter 28:
Taking Stock

The Price of
Victory

Client-Patron
Networks

Rising
Economic Inequality

Effect on
the Legions

Chapter 29:
Tiberius Gracchus

Early Career
and the Numantine Affair

Tribune of
the Plebs — 133 BC

The Lex
Agraria

Senatorial
Opposition

The Agrarian
Commission

The Bequest
of King Attalus III

Re-Election

Murder of
Tiberius

Chapter 30:
Gaius Gracchus

Early Career

First Term —
123 BC

Second Term
— 122 BC

Mob Violence
and Suicide

Impact of
the Gracchi

Chapter 31:
Marius

Early
Military Service

Patronage of
the Metelli

Jugurtha

Metellus and
Marius in North Africa

Campaign for
Consulship

Eliminating
Property Requirements

Sulla
Captures Jugurtha

The Return
of the Gauls

Illegal
Second Consulship

Marius’s
Mules

The Gauls
Finally Invade

Fifth
Consulship

Chapter 32:
The Social War, 91 – 88
BC

Causes of
Italian Discontent

Rebellion

Sulla
Promoted, Marius Thwarted

Cicero and
Pompey

The Seeds of
Civil War

Chapter 33:
Marius and Sulla, 88-84
BC

The First
March on Rome

The Marian
Terror

The First
Mithridatic War

The
Anti-Sulla Legions

The End of
the War

Sulla Heads
Home

Chapter 34:
No Greater Friend, No Worse Enemy, 83 – 78 BC

Consuls
Attempt to Defend Italy

Sulla’s
Supporters

Civil War

The Sullan
Proscriptions

Sulla’s
Reforms

Sulla
Retires

Chapter 35:
Crassus and Pompey

Marcus
Licinius Crassus

The Richest
Man in Rome

Pompey the
Great

Pompey goes
to Spain

Chapter 36:
I am Spartacus! 73-71 BC

Early
Biography

The Break
Out

Previous
Slave Revolts

Failure to
Contain the Rebellion

Spartacus
Repels Consular Armies

Crassus
takes Command

Spartacus
Defeated

The End of
the Slave Revolts

Chapter 37:
Go East Young Man, 74 —
62 BC

Bithynia

The Third
Mithridatic War

Lucullus
Replaced by Pompey

Pompey
Clears Out the Pirates

Pompey Goes
East

Pompey Comes
Home

Chapter 38:
The Catiline Conspiracy, 63
BC

Catiline

A Pattern of
Disrepute

Cicero

Catiline’s
Conspiracy

Consequences
of the Conspiracy

Chapter 39:
The Young Julius Caesar Chronicles, 100 – 59 BC

Early Life

The Civic
Crown

Legal Career

Captured by
Pirates

Entering the
Cursus Honorum

Caesar in
Spain

A Staggering
Load of Debt

Courting
Pompey

Back in
Spain

Triumph or
Consulship?

Chapter 40:
In the Consulship of Julius
and Caesar, 59 BC

The First
Triumvirate

Caesar’s
Wife must be above Suspicion

Land reform

Violent
Confrontations

Settling
Pompey’s Veterans

The Lex
Julia

Letting
Clodius off the Leash

Securing the
Future

Proconsul of
Cisalpine Gaul
Chapter 41:
The Gallic Wars, 58 – 52
BC

Gaul

The Helvetii
Provide a Pretext

Caesar Gets
Himself Invited into Gaul

Battle of
Bibracte — 58 BC

Ariovistus
Invades Gaul — 58 BC

Battle of
Vosges — 58 BC

Divide and
Conquer

Campaign
against the Belgae — 57 BC

The
Triumvirate Meets

Campaign
against the Veneti — 56 BC

First Rhine
Crossing — 55 BC

First
Invasion of Britain — 55 BC

Second
Invasion of Britain — 54 BC

Punitive
Genocide — 54-53 BC

The
Triumvirate Splinters

Vercingetorix’s
Revolt — 52 BC

Siege of
Alesia — 52 BC

Chapter 42:
Meanwhile, Back in Rome…, 58
– 50 BC

Clodius
Exiles Cicero and Cato

Clodius
Introduces the Grain Dole

Milo

Consulship
of Pompey and Crassus — 55 BC

Crassus
Invades Parthia

Battle of
Carrhae — 53 BC

Impact of
the Disaster

Rome Turns
on Caesar

Chapter 43:
Insert Well Known Idiom Here, 49 BC

Political
Standoff

The Charges
against Caesar

Caesar
Declared Enemy of the State — 50 BC

Mark Antony

Crossing the
Rubicon — 49 BC

Pompey
Withdraws from Rome

The Race to
Brundisium

Caesar
Enters Rome — April 49 BC

Caesar
Neutralizes Spain

First
Dictatorship

Fortune
Favors the Bold

Chapter 44:
Caesar Triumphant, 48 –
47 BC

Battle of
Dyrrachium — 48 BC

Battle of
Pharsalus — June 48 BC

The End of
Pompey

Caesar’s
Mercy

Cleopatra

Alexandrian
Revolt

Battle of
the Nile — 47 BC

Chapter 45:
The End of the War, 47 –
46 BC

Vini Vidi
Vici

Back in Rome

My Fellow
Citizens

I Hold You
Now, Africa

Battle of
Thapsus — 46 BC

Four
Triumphs

Enlightened
Reforms

Chapter 46:
Sic Semper Tyrannis, 46 –
44 BC

Rebellion in
Spain — 46-45 BC

King Caesar?

The Parthian
Expedition

Conspiracy

The Ides of
March

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