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Ancient Rome

A History

Second Edition

Ancient Rome

A History

Second Edition

D. Brendan Nagle

University of Southern California

2013 Sloan Publishing Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY 12520

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Nagle, D. Brendan, 1936Ancient Rome : a history / D. Brendan Nagle, University of Southern California. -- Second edition. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-59738-042-3 -- ISBN 1-59738-042-3 1. Rome--History. I. Title. DG209.N253 2013 937--dc23 2012048713

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Brief Contents

Introduction: Rome in Context 1 Part One: The Rise of Rome 13

1 The Founding of the City 21 2 Early Rome: External Challenges 37 3 The Rise of Rome: How Did it Happen? 63 4 Roman Religion 86 5 Roman Society 107 Part II: Rome Becomes an Imperial Power 125 6 The Wars with Carthage 129 7 After Hannibal: Roman Expansion 145 Part III: The Fall of the Roman Republic 159 8 The Consequences of Empire 163 9 The Crisis of the Roman Republic: The Gracchi 187 10 After the Gracchi 198 11 The Fall of the Republic: From Sulla to Octavian 210 Part IV: The Republic Restored: The Principate of Augustus 239 12 The Augustan Settlement 247 Part V: Making Permanent the Augustan Settlement 269 13 The Julio-Claudians: Tiberius to Nero 273 14 From the Flavians to the Death of Commodus 289 Part VI: The Roman Empire: What Held it Together? 305 15 What Held the Empire Together: Institutional Factors 309 16 What Held the Empire Together: Social and Cultural Factors 337 Part VII: Rome on the Defense: The Third Century A.D. 359 17 Rome on the Defense 363 18 The Challenge of Monotheism 374 Part VIII:Late Antiquity:Rome Reinvents Itself 393 19 Recovery and Transformation 401 20 Final Transformations: East and West 416 Glossary 447 Suggested Readings 451 Credits 461 Index 463

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