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Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Introduction Chapter 1: Rome from its Origins to 264 BC

Early Italy Historical Sources on Early Rome Rome’s Foundation Myth The Regal Period, 753–509 BC The Foundation of the Republic The Struggle of the Orders The Consulship The Dictatorship The Senate The Popular Assemblies The Plebeian Tribunate The Twelve Tables Military Tribunes with Consular Power Social and Economic Changes The Latin League Roman Expansion in Italy

The Samnite Wars The Pyrrhic War, 280–275 BC

Chapter 2: The Middle Republic (264–133 BC)

First Punic War (264–241 BC) Between the First and Second Punic Wars (241–218 BC) Second Punic War (218–201 BC) Campaigns in Sicily and Spain The War in Africa The Establishment of Roman Hegemony in the Mediterranean World

Roman Expansion in the Eastern Mediterranean Roman Expansion in the Western Mediterranean Explanations of Roman Expansion

Beginnings of Provincial Administration Transformation During the Middle Republic

Citizenship and Politics in the Middle Republic Culture and Religion Economy and Society Social Changes Rome and Italy

Chapter 3: The Late Republic (133–31 BC)

Aftermath of Victories

Changes in Provincial Administration Social and Economic Ills

The Reform Movement of the Gracchi (133–121 BC)

The Program and Career of Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus The Program and Career of Gaius Sempronius Gracchus War Against Jugurtha The Career of Gaius Marius

Events in Asia Developments in Italy Civil War and the Rule of Lucius Sulla The Early Career of Pompey Pompey and Crassus Political Suspicion and Violence The Final Collapse of the Roman Republic (59–44 BC)

Political Maneuvers Civil War The Dictatorship and Assassination of Caesar The Triumvirate and Octavian’s Achievement of Sole Power

Intellectual Life of the Late Republic

Grammar and Rhetoric Law and History Philosophy and Poetry

Chapter 4: The Early Roman Empire (31 BC–AD 193)

The Consolidation of the Empire Under the Julio-Claudians

The Establishment of the Principate Under Augustus The Roman Senate and the Urban Magistracies The Equestrian Order Administration of Rome and Italy Administration of the Provinces Emperor Worship The Army Foreign Policy Economic Life Augustan Art and Literature Appraisal of Augustus The Succession

Growth of the Empire Under the Flavians and Antonines

The Flavian Emperors The Early Antonine Emperors: Nerva and Trajan Hadrian and the Other Antonine Emperors

The Empire in the Second Century

Trend to Absolute Monarchy Political Life Rome and Italy Developments in the Provinces The Army Cultural Life

Chapter 5: The Later Roman Empire

The Dynasty of the Severi (AD 193–235)

Septimius Severus Caracalla Macrinus Elagabalus and Severus Alexander

Religious and Cultural Life in the Third Century

The Rise of Christianity Cultural Life from the Antonines to Constantine

Military Anarchy and the Disintegration of the Empire (235–270)

The Barbarian Invasions Difficulties in the East Economic and Social Crisis

The Recovery of the Empire and the Establishment of the Dominate (270–337)

Diocletian Struggle for Power The Reign of Constantine

The Roman Empire Under the Fourth-Century Successors of Constantine

The Reign of Julian The Reign of Valentinian and Valens The Reign of Gratian and Theodosius I Social and Economic Conditions The Remnants of Pagan Culture The Christian Church

The Eclipse of the Roman Empire in the West (c. 395–500) and the German Migrations

The Beginning of Germanic Hegemony in the West Barbarian Kingdoms Analysis of the Decline and Fall

Appendix A: Table of Roman Emperors from 27 BC through AD 476 Appendix B: Ancient Italic Peoples Glossary Bibliography Index