Ancient Rome

A good supplement for college students as well as a superb handbook for amateur historians, this illustrated summary of Roman history is supplemented with maps and chronologically divided into eight major divisions, covering the rise of ancient Rome from 1000 B.C. through its decline in 480 A.D. Glossary. Index. More than 400 photos and illustrations, most in color.

Preface

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The Cultural Environment: Greeks, Etruscans, Italics The indigenous and the immigrant: Cultures and cultural conflicts on the Apennine peninsula The Etruscans: Religion, state, economy, society The Etruscan script Etruscan tombs as a mirror of life The Tuscan-Roman temple

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The Roman Religion

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From Romulus to Caesar: The Roman Republic The founding of Rome and the time of the kings From village to state: Confederations, wars, and the Republic as a model of sovereignty Rome between the aristocracy and the people: Social crises and their significance for the republican state

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The Roman Navy From a confederation of cities to dominance: Politics and the military City and country, freedmen and slaves: The republican economy and its crises

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Imperial Portraiture

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State and Society: The View from the Upper Class Augustus-or republic lost The aristocracy's economic base: Country villas, town houses, and free time Politics, mythos, and art: Artistic media as the organ of ideology

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More than Money: Roman Coins Splendor and luxury of the Roman upper classes Art thieves and copyists: Greek art in a new context Culture versus nature: A universal contradiction as social motto

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Roman Classicism

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Daily Life in Roman Cities Big cities and slums: In the shadow of ancient architecture Roman recreation

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The Roman House Urban society

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The Family Craft, trade, and processing raw materials: The business and labor world between class organization and slavery The pageantry of the "little man": The self-dramatization of the middle class Of poverty and banditry

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Wall Paintings: The Four Pompeian Styles Medicine and pharmacology

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Rome and Its Provinces The creation and administration of the empire The limes and its castella The "urbanization" of the military camps: The creation of new provincial centers

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Roman Building Technology Commercial traffic in the Roman empire Surveying: Engineering as domination

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Water Conduits, Streets, and Bridges

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Crisis and Downfall The crisis of the Roman empire in the 3rd century AD Searching for solutions: The empire as an object of reform

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The Roman Army The Late Antiquity: Modern expression or historical epoch? Munera and urban flight: The last antique domain as image of the world Rome and the Christians

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The Catacombs The heirs of ancient Rome: Byzantium, Arab world, Langobardic-western culture

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Rome's Afterlife in the Medieval and Modern Worlds Rome as idea: Roman concepts of law and state in the postclassical world Ancient artifacts

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Roman Remains in the Vicissitudes of Time Lasting beauty and elemental greatness: Ancient Rome and the cult of ruins Rome as utopia: The American and the French Revolutions

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Triumphal Arches, City Gates, Villas: Motifs in Renaissance Architecture and Drawing Ancient Rome and the Wilhelmine idea of the "German" The ancient, the modern, and dictatorship: The role of Roman antiquity in Fascism and Nazism

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Decadence and Imitation: How a Culture Acquires an Image

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Ancient Rome and Modern Studies The transmission of the ancient Roman world The excavation of a culture: The discoveries of Pompeii and Herculaneum Between progress and fantasy: Experimental archaeology In lieu of conclusion: Ancient Rome from the perspective of contemporary ancient studies

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Glossary

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Historical Overview-A Short Survey of the History of Ancient Rome

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The Roman Emperors

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Museums and Collections of Roman Art and Cultural History; Important Archaeological Excavations

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Selected Bibliography

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Index of Places

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Index of Names

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Picture Credits

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