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Klappentext First published in 1924, this informative book aimed to provide a concise yet coherent and contextual picture of Roman history for school students. Zusammenfassung First published in 1924! this informative book was aimed at school students and served to introduce a concise yet coherent and contextual picture of Roman history. Multiple photographs are included and a summary of the most important dates and events has been placed at the end of almost every chapter. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Preface to the second edition; 1. The founding of Rome; 2. The last kings of Rome; 3. The early Republic to the time of the Decemviri; 4. The equalization of the orders; 5. The decay of Etruria and the invasion of the Gauls; 6. The three Samnite wars and the Latin revolt; 7. The war with Pyrrhus; 8. The first Punic war; 9. Preparations for a new struggle; 10. The second Punic war till Cannae; 11. The second Punic war. Cannae to Zama; 12. Macedon, Antiochus and Greece; 13. The destruction of Carthage and the Spanish wars; 14. Rome, Italy and the provinces; 15. The Gracchi; 16. Jugurthine and the Cimbrian wars; 17. Marius, the social war and Sulla; 18. First Mithradatic war; 19. Anarchy and Sulla's reforms; 20. Collapse of Sulla's constitution - four wars; 21. Cicero, Catiline and Caesar; 22. Caesar in Gaul; 23. Break-up of the coalition; 24. The civil war and the rule of Caesar; 25. The second civil war; 26. Augustus; 27. Tiberius to Domitian; 28. Nerva to Commodus; 29. The Severi to Aurelian; 30. Diocletian and Constantine; Index.
