History of the Roman PeopleA History of the Roman People provides a comprehensive analytical survey of Roman history from its prehistoric roots in Italy and the wider Mediterranean world to the dissolution of the Roman Empire in Late Antiquity ca. A.D. 600. Clearly organized and highly readable, the text's narrative of major political and military events provides a chronological and conceptual framework for chapters on social, economic, and cultural developments of the periods covered. Major topics are treated separately so that students can easily grasp key concepts and ideas. |
Contents
Its Geographic and Human Foundations | 1 |
II Phoenicians Greeks and Etruscans in PreRoman Italy | 11 |
III Early Rome to 500 BC | 28 |
IV Early Roman Society Religion and Values | 40 |
V From Tyrant Kings to Oligarchic Republic 509 to 287 BC | 56 |
VI The Roman Conquest of Italy and Its Impact 509 to 264 BC | 75 |
VII The First Punic War Northern Italy and Illyrian Pirates 264 to 219 BC | 90 |
The Second Punic War 218 to 201 BC | 102 |
Tiberius and Gaius Caligula AD 14 to 41 | 294 |
XXIII Claudius Nero and the End of the JulioClaudians AD 41 to 68 | 306 |
XXIV The Crisis of the Principate and Recovery under the Flavians AD 69 to 96 | 317 |
XXV The Five Good Emperors of the Second Century AD 96 to 180 | 327 |
XXVI Culture Society and Economy in the First Two Centuries AD | 343 |
XXVII Conflicts and Crises under Commodus and the Severi AD 180 to 235 | 367 |
XXVIII The ThirdCentury Anarchy AD 235 to 285 | 382 |
XXIX Changes in Roman Life and Culture during the Third Century | 392 |
IX Roman Imperialism East and West 200 to 133 BC | 112 |
X The Transformation of Roman Life 264 to 133 BC | 129 |
XI The Great Cultural Synthesis 264 to 133 BC | 143 |
XII The Gracchi and the Struggle over Reforms 133 to 121 BC | 154 |
XIII Destructive Rivalries Marius and the Social War 121 to 88 BC | 165 |
XIV Civil War and Sullas Reactionary Settlement 88 to 78 BC | 176 |
The Failure of Sullas Optimate Oligarchy 78 to 60 BC | 184 |
XVI Caesar Wins and Is Lost 60 to 44 BC | 200 |
XVII The Last Years of the Republic 44 to 30 BC | 217 |
XVIII Social Economic and Cultural Life in the Late Republic ca 133 to ca 30 BC | 231 |
XIX The Principate of the Early Roman Empire Takes Shape 29 BC to AD 14 | 250 |
XX Imperial Stabilization under Augustus | 263 |
XXI The Impact of Augustus on Roman Imperial Life and Culture | 279 |
Creating the FourthCentury Empire AD 285 to 305 | 408 |
XXXI Constantine the Great and Christianity AD 306 to 337 | 420 |
XXXII From Constantines Dynasty to Theodosius the Great AD 337 to 395 | 432 |
XXXIII The Evolving World of Late Antiquity in the Fourth Century AD | 439 |
XXXIV Christianity and Classical Culture in the Fourth Century | 454 |
XXXV Germanic Takeover in the West and Imperial Survival in the East AD 395 to 518 | 472 |
XXXVI Justin Justinian and the Impossible Dream of Universal Empire AD 518 to 602 | 487 |
XXXVII The Transformation of the Late Antique Roman World AD 395 to 600 | 502 |
XXXVIII The Church and the Legacy of Rome | 517 |
Bibliography | 522 |
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Plates | 559 |
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A History of the Roman People Allen Mason Ward,Fritz Moritz Heichelheim,Cedric A. Yeo No preview available - 2013 |
History of the Roman People, A, Allen M. Ward,Fritz M. Heichelheim,Cedric A. Yeo No preview available - 2013 |
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