Introduction: Rome in Context
Part One: The Rise of Rome
1 The Founding of the City
2 Early Rome: External Challenges
3 The Rise of Rome: How Did it Happen?
4 Roman Religion (sample chapter)
5 Roman Society
Part II: Rome Becomes an Imperial Power
6 The Wars with Carthage
7 After Hannibal: Roman Expansion
Part III: The Fall of the Roman Republic
8 The Consequences of Empire
9 The Crisis of the Roman Republic: The Gracchi
10 After the Gracchi
11 The Fall of the Republic: From Sulla to Octavian
Part IV: The Republic Restored: The Principate of Augustus
12 The Augustan Settlement (sample chapter)
Part V: Making Permanent the Augustan Settlement
13 The Julio-Claudians: Tiberius to Nero
14 From the Flavians to the Death of Commodus 289
Part VI: The Roman Empire: What Held it Together?
15 What Held the Empire Together: Institutional Factors
16 What Held the Empire Together: Social and Cultural Factors
Part VII: Rome on the Defense: The Third Century A.D.
17 Rome on the Defense
18 The Challenge of Monotheism (sample chapter)
Part VIII:Late Antiquity:Rome Reinvents Itself
19 Recovery and Transformation
20 Final Transformations: East and West (sample chapter)
Glossary
Suggested Readings
Credits
Index