Master - Table of Contents

Volume I

Title Page

Copyright

Introduction by Daniel J. Boorstin

A Note on Piranesi

Introduction

The Grandeur That was Rome

A List of Illustrations

The Author’s Prefatory Notes

CHAPTER I
THE EXTENT AND MILITARY FORCE OF THE EMPIRE IN THE AGE OF THE ANTONINES WHICH WAS IN THE YEARS 98–180 A.D.
CHAPTER II
OF THE UNION AND INTERNAL PROSPERITY OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE IN THE AGE OF THE ANTONINES · ART · CHARACTER
CHAPTER III
OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE IN THE AGE OF THE ANTONINES · RULERS FROM AUGUSTUS TO DOMITIAN
CHAPTER IV
THE CRUELTY, FOLLIES, AND MURDER OF COMMODUS · ELECTION OF PERTINAX · HIS ATTEMPTS TO REFORM THE STATE · HIS ASSASSINATION BY PRÆTORIAN GUARDS · INDIGNATION
CHAPTER V
PUBLIC SALE OF THE EMPIRE TO DIDIUS JULIANUS BY THE PRÆTORIAN GUARDS · CLODIUS ALBINUS IN BRITAIN, PESCENNIUS NIGER IN SYRIA, AND SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS IN PANNONIA, DECLARE AGAINST THE MURDERERS OF PERTINAX · CIVIL WARS, AND VICTORY OF SEVERUS OVER HIS THREE RIVALS · RELAXATION OF DISCIPLINE · NEW MAXIMS OF GOVERNMENT
CHAPTER VI
THE DEATH OF SEVERUS · TYRANNY OF CARACALLA · USURPATION OF MACRINUS · FOLLIES OF ELAGABALUS · VIRTUES OF ALEXANDER SEVERUS · LICENTIOUSNESS OF THE ARMY · GENERAL STATE OF THE ROMAN FINANCES · TAX & TRIBUTE
CHAPTER VII
THE ELEVATION, AND TYRANNY, OF MAXIMIN · REBELLION IN AFRICA AND ITALY, UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THE SENATE · CIVIL WARS AND SEDITIONS · VIOLENT DEATHS OF MAXIMIN AND HIS SON, OF MAXIMUS AND BALBINUS, AND OF THE THREE GORDIANS · USURPATION AND GAMES OF PHILIP
CHAPTER VIII
OF THE STATE OF PERSIA AFTER THE RESTORATION OF THE MONARCHY BY ARTAXERXES · HIS CHARACTER AND MAXIMS
CHAPTER IX
THE STATE OF GERMANY TILL THE INVASION OF THE BARBARIANS, IN THE TIME OF THE EMPEROR DECIUS · 248 A.D.
CHAPTER X
THE EMPERORS DECIUS, GALLUS, ÆMILIANUS, VALERIAN, AND GALLIENUS · THE GENERAL IRRUPTION OF THE BARBARIANS · THE THIRTY TYRANTS · THEIR REAL NUMBER NINETEEN
CHAPTER XI
REIGN OF CLAUDIUS · DEFEAT OF THE GOTHS · VICTORIES, TRIUMPH, AND DEATH, OF AURELIAN · ZENOBIA’S CHARACTER
CHAPTER XII
CONDUCT OF THE ARMY AND SENATE AFTER THE DEATH OF AURELIAN · REIGNS OF TACITUS, PROBUS, CARUS AND HIS SONS
CHAPTER XIII
THE REIGN OF DIOCLETIAN AND HIS THREE ASSOCIATES, MAXIMIAN, GALERIUS, AND CONSTANTIUS · GENERAL RE-ESTABLISHMENT OF ORDER AND TRANQUILITY · THE PERSIAN WAR, VICTORY, AND TRIUMPH · THE NEW FORM OF ADMINISTRATION · THE ABDICATION OF DIOCLETIAN AND MAXIMIAN
CHAPTER XIV
TROUBLES AFTER THE ABDICATION OF DIOCLETIAN · DEATH OF CONSTANTIUS · ELEVATION OF CONSTANTINE AND MAXENTIUS · SIX EMPERORS AT THE SAME TIME · DEATH OF MAXIMIAN AND GALERIUS · VICTORIES OF CONSTANTINE OVER MAXENTIUS AND LICINIUS · REUNION OF THE EMPIRE UNDER AUTHORITY OF CONSTANTINE · HIS LAWS · GENERAL PEACE
CHAPTER XV
THE PROGRESS OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, AND THE SENTIMENTS, MANNERS, NUMBERS, AND CONDITION, OF THE PRIMITIVE CHRISTIANS · CEREMONIES, ARTS, AND FESTIVALS
CHAPTER XVI
THE CONDUCT OF THE ROMAN GOVERNMENT TOWARDS THE CHRISTIANS, FROM REIGN OF NERO TO THAT OF CONSTANTINE · PERSECUTION OF JEWS & CHRISTIANS BY DOMITIAN
CHAPTER XVII
FOUNDATION OF CONSTANTINOPLE · POLITICAL SYSTEM OF CONSTANTINE, AND HIS SUCCESSORS · MILITARY DISCIPLINE THE PALACE · FINANCES · GENERAL TRIBUTE · FREE GIFTS
CHAPTER XVIII
CHARACTER OF CONSTANTINE · GOTHIC WAR · DEATH OF CONSTANTINE · DIVISION OF THE EMPIRE AMONG HIS THREE SONS · PERSIAN WAR · TRAGIC DEATHS OF CONSTANTINE THE YOUNGER AND CONSTANS · USURPATION OF MAGNENTIUS · CIVIL WAR · CONQUEST OF ITALY · VICTORY OF CONSTANTIUS
CHAPTER XIX
CONSTANTIUS SOLE EMPEROR · ELEVATION AND DEATH OF GALLUS · DANGER AND ELEVATION OF JULIAN · SARMATIAN AND PERSIAN WARS · VICTORIES OF JULIAN IN GAUL · PARIS
CHAPTER XX
THE MOTIVES, PROGRESS, AND EFFECTS OF THE CONVERSION OF CONSTANTINE · LEGAL ESTABLISHMENT AND CONSTITUTION OF THE CHRISTIAN OR CATHOLIC CHURCH · THE CLERGY
CHAPTER XXI
PERSECUTION OF HERESY · THE SCHISM OF THE DONATISTS THE ARIAN CONTROVERSY · ATHANASIUS · DISTRACTED STATE OF THE CHURCH & EMPIRE UNDER CONSTANTINE & HIS SONS
CHAPTER XXII
JULIAN IS DECLARED EMPEROR BY THE LEGIONS OF GAUL · HIS MARCH AND SUCCESS · THE DEATH OF CONSTANTIUS · CIVIL ADMINISTRATION OF JULIAN · HIS FINE CHARACTER
CHAPTER XXIII
THE RELIGION OF JULIAN · UNIVERSAL TOLERATION · HE ATTEMPTS TO RESTORE AND REFORM THE PAGAN WORSHIP; TO REBUILD THE TEMPLE OF JERUSALEM · HIS ARTFUL PERSECUTION OF THE CHRISTIANS · MUTUAL ZEAL AND INJUSTICE
CHAPTER XXIV
RESIDENCE OF JULIAN AT ANTIOCH · HIS SUCCESSFUL EXPEDITION AGAINST THE PERSIANS · PASSAGE OF THE TIGRIS · THE RETREAT AND DEATH OF JULIAN · ELECTION OF JOVIAN · HE SAVES THE ROMAN ARMY BY A DISGRACEFUL PEACE TREATY
CHAPTER XXV
THE GOVERNMENT AND DEATH OF JOVIAN · ELECTION OF VALENTINIAN, WHO ASSOCIATES HIS BROTHER VALENS, AND MAKES THE FINAL DIVISION OF THE EASTERN AND WESTERN EMPIRES · REVOLT OF PROCOPIUS · CIVIL AND ECCLESIASTICAL ADMINISTRATION · GERMANY · BRITAIN · AFRICA · THE EAST · THE DANUBE · DEATH OF VALENTINIAN · HIS TWO SONS, GRATIAN AND VALENTINIAN II., SUCCEED TO THE WESTERN EMPIRE · THE EASTERN EMPEROR IS WITHOUT INFLUENCE
CHAPTER XXVI
MANNERS OF THE PASTORAL NATIONS · PROGRESS OF THE HUNS · FLIGHT OF THE GOTHS · THEY PASS THE DANUBE · GOTHIC WAR · DEFEAT AND DEATH OF VALENS · GRATIAN INVESTS THEODOSIUS WITH THE EASTERN EMPIRE · HIS CHARACTER AND SUCCESS · PEACE AND SETTLEMENT OF THE GOTHS