A History of the Roman People

List of figures; Preface; Chapter 1 Roman History: Its Geographic and Human Foundations; Chapter 2 Phoenicians, Greeks, and Etruscans in Pre-Roman Italy; Chapter 3 Early Rome to 500 B.C.E.; Chapter 4 Early Roman Society, Religion, and Values; Chapter 5 From Tyrant Kings to Oligarchic Republic, 509 to 287 B.C.E.; Chapter 6 The Roman Conquest of Italy and Its Impact, 509 to 264 B.C.E.; Chapter 7 The First Punic War, Northern Italy, and Illyrian Pirates, 264 to 219 B.C.E.; Chapter 8 War with Hannibal: The Second Punic War, 218 to 201 B.C.E.; Chapter 9 Roman Imperialism East and West, 200 to 133 B.C.E.; Chapter 10 The Transformation of Roman Life, 264 to 133 B.C.E.; Chapter 11 The Great Cultural Synthesis, 264 to 133 B.C.E.; Chapter 12 The Gracchi and the Struggle over Reforms, 133 to 121 B.C.E.; Chapter 13 Destructive Rivalries, Marius, and the Social War, 121 to 88 B.C.E.; Chapter 14 Civil War and Sulla's Reactionary Settlement, 88 to 78 B.C.E.; Chapter 15 Personal Ambitions: The Failure of Sulla's Optimate Oligarchy, 78 to 60 B.C.E.; Chapter 16 Caesar Wins and Is Lost, 60 to 44 B.C.E.; Chapter 17 The Last Years of the Republic, 44 to 30 B.C.E.; Chapter 18 Social, Economic, and Cultural Life in the Late Republic, ca. 133 to ca. 30 B.C.E.; Chapter 19 The Principate of the Early Roman Empire Takes Shape, 29 B.C.E. to 14 C.E.; Chapter 20 Imperial Stabilization under Augustus; Chapter 21 The Impact of Augustus on Roman Imperial Life and Culture; Chapter 22 The First Two Julio-Claudian Emperors: Tiberius and Gaius (Caligula), 14 to 41 C.E.; Chapter 23 Claudius, Nero, and the End of the Julio-Claudians, 41 to 68 C.E.; Chapter 24 The Crisis of the Principate and Recovery under the Flavians, 69 to 96 C.E.; Chapter 25 The Five "Good" Emperors of the Second Century, 96 to 180 C.E.; Chapter 26 Culture, Society, and Economy in the First Two Centuries C.E.; Chapter 27 Conflicts and Crises under Commodus and the Severi, 180 to 235 C.E.; Chapter 28 The Third-Century Anarchy, 235 to 285 C.E.; Chapter 29 Changes in Roman Life and Culture during the Third Century; Chapter 30 Diocletian: Creating the Fourth-Century Empire, 285 to 305 C.E.; Chapter 31 Constantine the Great and Christianity, 306 to 337 C.E.; Chapter 32 From Constantine's Dynasty to Theodosius the Great, 337 to 395 C.E.; Chapter 33 The Evolving World of Late Antiquity in the Fourth Century C.E.; Chapter 34 Christianity and Classical Culture in the Fourth Century; Chapter 35 Germanic Takeover in the West and Imperial Survival in the East, 395 to 518 C.E.; Chapter 36 Justin, Justinian, and the Impossible Dream of Universal Empire, 518 to 602 C.E.; Chapter 37 The Transformation of the Late Antique Roman World, 395 to 600 C.E.; Chapter 38 The Church and the Legacy of Rome