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Portrait of a People | p. 8 |
Royal Subjects to Republican Citizens 753-300 BC | p. 12 |
Faustulus: The shepherd who adopted Romulus and Remus | p. 16 |
Titus Tatius: Outraged Sabine father | p. 18 |
Tanaquil: King-maker | p. 21 |
Servius Tullius: From captive to king | p. 22 |
Brutus: Liberator of Rome | p. 25 |
Lucretia: Perfect Roman matron | p. 29 |
Cloelia: The girl who defied Lars Porsenna | p. 32 |
Vindicius: The slave who betrayed a conspiracy | p. 34 |
Cincinnatus: From ploughman to dictator | p. 36 |
Verginius: Centurion and revolutionary | p. 38 |
Marcus Manlius: Defender of the Capitol | p. 40 |
Titus Manlius: A soldier killed on his father's orders | p. 42 |
Decius Mus: Self-sacrifice to the gods | p. 44 |
From Italians to Romans 300-88 BC | p. 46 |
Regulus: Crucified general | p. 50 |
Fabius Pictor: Rome's first historian | p. 52 |
Plautus: Roman playwright | p. 56 |
Cato the Elder: A pillar of virtue | p. 59 |
Fabius Maximus: The general who delayed Hannibal | p. 61 |
Claudius Marcellus: Besieger of Syracuse | p. 63 |
Quinctius Crispinus: Duel to the death with an old friend | p. 67 |
Laelius: Friend of Scipio Africanus | p. 69 |
Spurius Licustinus: An ordinary soldier who worked his way up the ranks | p. 72 |
Cornelia: Mother of the Gracchi | p. 73 |
Rutilius Rufus: The perils of virtue | p. 77 |
Sulla: The Roman who conquered Rome | p. 79 |
Staberius Eros: Schoolteacher | p. 82 |
Pasiteles: Roman sculptor | p. 84 |
Life in Troubled Times 300-88 BC | p. 86 |
Hortensius: King of the courts | p. 90 |
Cicero: Rome's greatest orator | p. 92 |
Verres: Rapacious governor of Sicily | p. 96 |
Catiline: Decadent revolutionary | p. 99 |
Sallust: Disappoinled demagogue | p. 102 |
Tiro: Besieger of Syracuse Cicero' s slave and amanuensis | p. 104 |
Clodia: Aristocrat and wild child | p. 106 |
Atticus: Friend to the powerful | p. 109 |
Servilia: Caesar's lover, Brutus' mother | p. 112 |
Julius Caesar: Glory and infamy | p. 114 |
Horace: Poet and freedman's son | p. 120 |
Augustus: Master of the empire | p. 122 |
Agrippa: Augustus second-in-command | p. 130 |
Julius Zoilos: Octavian's loyal freedman | p. 134 |
Nonius Balbus: Benefactor of Herculaneum | p. 135 |
Livy: Historian of Rome | p. 137 |
Eumachia: First lady of Pompeii | p. 140 |
Hilarion of Oxyrhynchus: Killing a girl child | p. 142 |
Virgil: Rome's greatest poet | p. 144 |
Romans and Caesars AD 14-75 | p. 146 |
Sulpicia: Teenage poet | p. 150 |
Antonia Augusta: Imperial matriarch | p. 152 |
Sejanus: Tiberius' sinister henchman | p. 154 |
Pontius Pilate: Governor of Judaea | p. 157 |
Caligula: Bad or mad? | p. 160 |
Pallas: An ex-slave takes charge | p. 162 |
Agrippina: Claudius' wife, Nero's mother | p. 165 |
Locusta: Imperial poisoner by appointment | p. 168 |
Cornelius Pulcher: A patron of the Isthmian Games | p. 170 |
Numerius Quinctius: Actor | p. 172 |
Antonia Caenis: Vespasian's mistress | p. 174 |
Petilius Cerialis: Trouble with testosterone | p. 177 |
Frontinus: Rome's master of aqueducts | p. 178 |
Josephus: Crossing the cultural divide | p. 181 |
Amazonia: Female gladiator | p. 183 |
Epictetus: The philosopher slave | p. 185 |
Martial: The art of epigrams | p. 187 |
Citizens of the Empire AD 75-200 | p. 190 |
Pliny the Elder: Scholar and man of action | p. 194 |
Larcius Macedo: Master killed by his slaves | p. 197 |
Minicius Acilianus: The prospective husband | p. 200 |
Domitian: The paranoid emperor | p. 200 |
Agricola: Governor of Britain | p. 204 |
Tiberius Claudius Maximus: Roman cavalryman | p. 207 |
Blandina Martiola: A plasterer's wife in Gaul | p. 211 |
Claudia Severa: Lady in the British garrison at Vindolanda | p. 211 |
Apollodorus: Trajan's architect | p. 214 |
Antinous: Boy lover of Hadrian | p. 218 |
Metila Acte: Priestess of the Great Mother | p. 221 |
Marcus Aurelius: The imperial philosopher | p. 223 |
Aulus Geluus: Grammarian and writer | p. 225 |
Herodian: Civil servant and historian in Asia Minor | p. 227 |
Didius Julianus: The man who bought an empire | p. 230 |
Decline and Fall AD 200-476 | p. 232 |
Clodia Laeta: Vestal Virgin buried alive | p. 236 |
Elagabalus: Priest of the sun god and emperor of Rome | p. 238 |
Postumus: Leader of a breakaway empire | p. 242 |
Odaenathus: Husband of Queen Zenobia | p. 243 |
Symmachius: Victorious gladiator | p. 246 |
Aurelia Ammima: Divorced a Roman soldier | p. 248 |
Julius Terentius: A soldier killed by the Persians | p. 250 |
St Alban: Christian martyr | p. 252 |
Diocletian: The emperor who abdicated | p. 254 |
Constantine: Christian emperor | p. 258 |
Ammianus Marcellinus: The soldier historian | p. 262 |
Julian the Apostate: The last pagan emperor | p. 265 |
Valentinian: Bulwark against the Barbarians | p. 268 |
Stilicho: Rome's last great general | p. 271 |
Hypatia: Scholar and martyr to religious fanaticism | p. 273 |
Vetitius Agorius Praetextatus: Leader of the pagans in the Senate | p. 275 |
Isaac of Armenia: Keeping the faith | p. 276 |
Augustine: Father of the church | p. 280 |
Leo the Great: The pope who stopped Attila | p. 283 |
Priscus: Ambassador to Attila the Hun | p. 286 |
Consentius: Amateur chariot racer | p. 289 |
Romulus Augustulus: The last emperor | p. 292 |
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