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)