A History of the Roman World 753-146 BC

by Re Prof H H Scullard Dec'D; S

• ISBN13: 9780415305044
• ISBN10: 0415305047
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2002-12-20
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This is the established, definitive work on the history of Rome from its founding to the fall of Carthage. By covering not just political and military events, but also economic, social, and cultural issues, Scullard creates a comprehensive portrait of both the city and the provinces. The Roman World is an accessible introduction to these centuries of change when Italy was unified, the Rome established an empire, and epic struggles like the Punic Wars decided the fate of the whole of the Mediterranean region.

Table of Contents

List of maps	xi
Preface to first edition	xiii
Preface to second edition	xiv
Preface to third edition	xiv
Preface to fourth edition	xv
Introduction	xvii
Part I Rome and Italy	1	(154)
The Land and Its Peoples	3	(39)
The land	3	(2)
Early man	5	(3)
The Copper and Bronze Ages	8	(4)
The Early Iron Age Villanovans	12	(6)
The Italic peoples	18	(2)
Greeks, Phoenicians and Celts	20	(5)
The Etruscans	25	(3)
Etruscan culture	28	(5)
The Etruscan Empire	33	(3)
Early Latium	36	(6)
Regal Rome	42	(36)
The foundation of Rome: archaeological evidence	42	(4)
The foundation of Rome: the legends	46	(4)
The early kings	50	(3)
The sixth-century kings	53	(3)
Etruscan Rome	56	(6)
Nobles, commons and the priesthood	62	(5)
Political organization	67	(7)
The fall of the monarchy	74	(4)
The New Republic and the Struggle of the Orders	78	(14)
The Republican government	78	(3)
Land and debt	81	(3)
A state within the state	84	(2)
The decemvirs and law	86	(3)
The weakening of patrician control	89	(3)
The Roman Republic and Its Neighbours	92	(23)
The Triple Alliance	92	(2)
The Sabines, Aequi and Volsci	94	(3)
The duel with Veii	97	(4)
The Gallic catastrophe	101	(3)
The recovery of Rome	104	(4)
Rome's widening horizon	108	(3)
The end of the Latin League	111	(4)
The Union of the Orders and the Constitution	115	(16)
Economic distress	115	(2)
Victories of the plebeians	117	(2)
Social and political adjustments	119	(4)
The magistrates and Senate	123	(5)
The assemblies and People	128	(3)
Rome's Conquest and Organization of Italy	131	(24)
Rome and Campania	131	(1)
The Great Samnite War	132	(4)
Rome's triumphant advance	136	(3)
The Greeks of southern Italy	139	(2)
The Italian adventure of Pyrrhus	141	(3)
The end of pre-Roman Italy	144	(2)
The Roman confederacy	146	(9)
Part II Rome and Carthage	155	(86)
The First Struggle	157	(22)
The Carthaginian Empire	157	(3)
Carthage	160	(4)
The causes of the war	164	(3)
Rome's naval offensive	167	(4)
Rome's offensive in Africa	171	(2)
Stalemate and checkmate	173	(6)
The Entr' Acte	179	(24)
The province of Sicily	179	(4)
Carthage and the Sardinian question	183	(3)
Rome and the Gauls	186	(5)
The Illyrian pirates	191	(4)
The Punic Empire in Spain	195	(3)
The causes of the Second Punic War	198	(5)
Hannibal's Offensive and Rome's Defensive	203	(22)
Hannibal's invasion of northern Italy	203	(4)
Hannibal in central Italy	207	(4)
The Scipios and Spain	211	(3)
The extension of the war to Macedon	214	(2)
Marcellus and Sicily	216	(3)
Fabius and Rome's defensive	219	(6)
Scipio and Rome's Offensive	225	(16)
Scipio's conquest of Spain	225	(4)
The war in Italy	229	(3)
The Roman offensive in Africa	232	(4)
Victory and peace	236	(5)
Part III Rome and the Mediterranean	241	(98)
Rome and Greece	243	(16)
The Hellenistic world	243	(2)
The outbreak of war	245	(3)
The causes of the war	248	(3)
The Second Macedonian War	251	(4)
The settlement of Greece	255	(4)
Rome and Antiochus	259	(15)
The diplomatic conflict	259	(3)
The war in Greece	262	(4)
The war in Asia	266	(4)
The settlement of the east	270	(4)
Rome and the Eastern Mediterranean	274	(18)
The growing tension	274	(5)
The Third Macedonian War	279	(4)
The Hellenistic east	283	(6)
The end of Greek independence	289	(3)
Rome, Italy and the Western Mediterranean	292	(26)
The northern frontier	292	(5)
Cato and Gracchus in Spain	297	(3)
The Celtiberian and Lusitanian Wars	300	(3)
The Numantine War	303	(3)
Carthage and Masinissa	306	(2)
Delenda est Carthago	308	(3)
The fall of Carthage	311	(7)
Roman Policy and the Government	318	(21)
Home policy	318	(6)
Foreign policy and the provinces	324	(5)
The senatorial oligarchy	329	(4)
The rival families	333	(6)
Part IV Roman life and culture	339	(81)
Economic and Social Organization	341	(36)
Agriculture	341	(4)
Warfare	345	(3)
Commerce and industry	348	(5)
Currency and finance	353	(4)
Slavery	357	(2)
Family life	359	(2)
Greek influences	361	(5)
The city	366	(7)
Law	373	(4)
Literature and Art	377	(13)
Early Latin	377	(2)
The poets	379	(6)
Prose writers	385	(1)
Art	386	(4)
Roman Religion	390	(16)
The religion of the family	390	(3)
The religion of the state	393	(4)
Foreign cults	397	(9)
Sources and Authorities	406	(14)
Archaeology and inscriptions	406	(1)
Calendars and Fasti	407	(2)
The historians	409	(4)
Sources	413	(5)
Chronology	418	(2)
Chronological table	420	(12)
Select bibliography	432	(6)
Abbreviations	438	(2)
Notes	440	(91)
Index	531