Brief History of Rome

Contents

POLITICAL HISTORY OF ROME
Introduction
Founding of Rome
Sabine Invasion and League
Etruscan Conquest
The Struggle between Patricians and Plebeians
The Gallic Invasion
The War with Pyrrhus
The Punic Wars
The Civil Wars
Imperial Rome
Spread of Christianity
Invasion of the Barbarians
Fall of Rome

CIVILIZATION
Society
The Army
Arms and Mode of Warfare
Literature
Libraries and Writing Material
Education
Monument and Art

MANNERS AND CUSTOMS
General Character
Religion
Games and Festivals
Marriage
Burial
Dress
Scenes in Real Life-I. A Day in Rome. II. A Roman Home. III. A Triumphal Procession. IV. The last of a Roman Emperor

SUMMARY
Of the Political History
Of the Civilization
Reading References
Chronology


SELECTED READINGS IN ROMAN HISTORY

The Origin of the Romans - Latin Race, Latnguage, Society, Tribal Divisions, Houses, Citizenship, Society, Tribal Divisions, Houses, Citizenship. (Arnold)

Causes of Rome's Early Greatness - The Campagna and the Tiber (Philip Smith) - The Palatine Hill, the Cradle Rome (Merivale) - The Seven Hills, and the Power of Political Confederacy (Ihne) - The Rapid Growth of the Imperial City (Sheppard) - Rome and the Mistress of the Mediterranean (Sheppard)

Roman Ballads, The Source of Roman Legendary History (Macaulay) - Battle of Lake Regillus (Macaulay)

Period of the Punic Wars - Rome in the Third Century (Ihne) - Hannibal, The Genius of Hannibal (Arnold) - Hannibal at the Gates of Rome (Livy) - Hasdrubal at the Metaurus (Arnold) - A Roman Atonement, a Suspense and a Thanksgiving (Before and after the battle of Metaurus) - Carthage (Edimburgh Review) - Cato the Censor (Plutarch) - Sumptuary Laws (Ihne) - Debate between Cato and L. Valerius on the Oppian Law (Livy).

Period of the Civil Wars - Rome at the Opening of the Civil Wars - The New Nobility (Philip Smith) - Public Improvements (Philip Smith) - The Gracchi (Plutarch) - Marius and Silla (Beesly) - Julius Caesar, The Man (Froude) - The Soldier (Froude) - The Orator and Author (Froude) - Caesar's Mission (Froude) - Pompey the Great (Alfred Church) - The First Trimvirate (Froude) - Battle of Pharsalia (Froude, Caesar) - Caesar's Death (Shakspere) - Antony, Octavius, and Cicero (Church, Froudes) - End of Cato the Stoic (Church) - Comparison of Cato and Caesar (Sallust)

The Augustan Age - Rome Under Augustus (Edimburgh Review) - The Personal Augustus (Merivale) - Town and Country Life (Horace) - A Roman Poet's City Home (Becker).

The First Christian Century - Tiberius, Caligula, and Claudius (White, Velleius Paterculus) - The Siege of Jerusalem, Description of Roman Armies (Josephus) - How Titus Marched to Jerusalem (Josephus) - The Destruction of the City (Collier) - The Triumphant Return of Titus (Josephus) - The Colosseum (Story) - The Eruption of Mont Vesuvius (Pliny) - A Satire on Roman Vices (Juvenal)

The Five Good Emperors - Nerva and Trajan (White, Merivale) - Pliny's Correspondence with Trajan concerning the Christians (Pliny) - Hadrian and Antinous (George Taylor) - Hadrian's Villa at Tibur (George Taylor) - The Good Humor of Antoninus Pius (Watson) - How a Young Roman Prince Spent His Days (Marcus Aurelius to his Tutor (Watson) - The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (Watson).

The Decline and Fall of Rome - The Empire sold to the Highest Bidder (White) - The Removal to Constantinople (White) - The Three Sacks of the Eternal City (Kingsley).

Social, Civil and Religious Peculiarities - Roman Slavery - A Slave not a Person but a Thing - Penalty for a Murdered Master (Tacitus) - Roman Superstition - Evil Omens, and How they were Averted (Livy) - A Senate Dismayed by the Contumacious Liver of an Ox (Livy) - Roman Jurisprudence - Forms and Ceremonies (Gibbon) - Epoch of Jurisprudence (Gibbon) - The Parent and the Child (Gibbon) - The Tutor and the Child (Gibbon) - The Tutor and the Pupil (Gibbon) - The Thefts and Insults (Gibbon) - Crimes and Punishments (Gibbon) - Voluntary Exile and Death (Gibbon).