A History of the Roman People

1. Roman history: Its geographic and human foundations; 2. Phoenicians, Greeks, and Etruscans in pre-Roman Italy; 3. Rome's Archaic Monarchy, ca. 750-ca. 500 BC; 4. Early Roman society, religion, and values; 5. From tyrant kings to oligarchic republic, 509 to 287 b.c.e.; 6. Roman Expansion in Italy, 509 to 264 b.c.e.; 7. The First Punic War, northern Italy, and Illyrian pirates, 264 to 219 b.c.e.; 8. War with Hannibal: The Second Punic War, 218 to 201 b.c.e.; 9. Roman imperialism East and West, 200 to 133 b.c.e.; 10. The transformation of Roman life, 264 to 133 b.c.e.; 11. The great cultural synthesis, 264 to 133 b.c.e.; 12. The Gracchi and the struggle over reforms, 133 to 121 b.c.e.; 13. Destructive rivalries, Marius, and the Social War, 121 to 88 b.c.e.; 14. Civil war and Sulla's reactionary settlement, 88 to 78 b.c.e.; 15. Personal ambitions: The failure of Sulla's optimate oligarchy, 78 to 60 b.c.e.; 16. Caesar wins and is lost, 60 to 44 b.c.e.; 17. The last years of the Republic, 44 to 30 b.c.e.; 18. Social, economic, and cultural life in the late Republic, ca. 133 to ca. 30 b.c.e.; 19. From Oligarchic Republic to Monarchic Empire, 30 b.c.e. to 14 c.e.; 20. Imperial stabilization under Augustus; 21. The impact of Augustus on Roman Imperial life and culture; 22. The first two Julio-Claudian Emperors: Tiberius and Gaius (Caligula), 14 to 41 c.e.; 23. Claudius, Nero, and the end of the Julio-Claudians, 41 to 68 c.e.; 24. The crisis of the Principate and recovery under the Flavians, 69 to 96 c.e.; 25. The five "good" emperors of the second century, 96 to 180 c.e.; 26. Culture, society, and economy in the first two centuries c.e.; 27. Conflicts and Crises under Commodus and the Severi, 180 to 235 c.e.; 28. Crises of the third century, 235 to 285 c.e.; 29. Changes in Roman life and culture during the third century; 30. Diocletian: Creating the fourth-century Empire, 285 to 305 c.e.; 31. Constantine the Great and Christianity, 306 to 337 c.e.; 32. From Constantine's dynasty to Theodosius the Great, 337 to 395 c.e.; 33. The evolving world of Late Antiquity in the fourth century c.e.; 34. Christianity and Classical culture in the fourth century; 35. Germanic takeover in the West and Imperial survival in the East, 395 to 518 c.e.; 36. Justin, Justinian, and the impossible dream of universal Empire, 518 to 602 c.e.; 37. The transformation of the late antique Roman world, 395 to 600 c.e.; 38. The problem of Rome's fall.