CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Note on Citations to Sources

Chapter 1: Introduction and Background

Chapter 2: Roman Values, The Family, and Religion

Chapter 3: From the Founding of Rome to the Republic

Chapter 4: War and Expansion During the Republic

Chapter 5: The Destruction of the Republic

Chapter 6: From Republic to Empire

Chapter 7: From the Julio-Claudians to the Empire’s Golden Age

Chapter 8: From Jesus to Crisis in the Early Empire

Chapter 9: From Persecution to Christianization in the Later Empire

Chapter 10: Barbarian Migrations and the Fates of the Empire

Suggested Readings

Index