xxvii, 694 pages : 26 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

Part I. Pre-Roman Italy. The geographical environment of Roman history; The early inhabitants of Italy; Greeks and Etruscans in early Italy -- Part II. The Roman Conquest of Italy. Latium and Rome; Rome in the period of the kings; The sources for early Roman history; The conflict of the orders. The first stage; The early wars of the Republic; The conflict of the orders. The second stage; The Latin, Samnite and Pyrrhic Wars; The Roman State in the Third Century B.C. -- Part III. The Conquest of the Mediterranean. The First Punic War and the conquest of Northern Italy; The Second Punic War; The conquest of the Western Mediterranean; The Macedonian Wars; The Roman Wars in Asia in the Second Century; The government of the Roman Provinces; Domestic politics in the Second Century; Roman society in the Second Century -- Part IV. The Fall of the Republic. Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus; Marius and the new Roman Army; The Italian Wars, 91-83 B.C.; The temporary monarchy of Cornelius Sulla; The fall of the Restoration Government; The wars of Lucullus, Pompey and Crassus; Caesar's conquest of Gaul and the breakdown of the First Triumvirate; The rise of Caesar to supreme power; The Second Triumvirate; Roman society in the First Century -- Part V. Consolidation of the Roman Empire. The settlement of Augustus. Rome and Italy; The Roman Empire under Augustus; The Julio-Claudian Emperors. Internal affairs; The Roman Empire under the Julio-Claudian dynasty; Roman society under the early Roman Empire; The 'Year of the Four Emperors'; The Flavian Emperors; The 'Five Good Emperors;. General administration; The 'Five Good Emperors'. External affairs; Roman society from A.D. 70 to 180; Commodus and the Severi -- Part VI. The Decline of the Roman Empire. The crisis of the empire in the Third Century; Diocletian and Constantine; Economic, cultural and religious developments; The Roman Empire. Retrospect and prospect

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