BOOK COVER -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 ROME FROM ITS ORIGINS TO 264 BC -- EARLY ITALY -- HISTORICAL SOURCES ON EARLY ROME -- THE REGAL PERIOD, 753-509 BC -- THE FOUNDATION OF THE REPUBLIC -- THE STRUGGLE OF THE ORDERS -- THE CONSULSHIP -- THE DICTATORSHIP -- THE SENATE -- THE POPULAR ASSEMBLIES -- THE PLEBEIAN TRIBUNATE -- MILITARY TRIBUNES WITH CONSULAR POWER -- SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CHANGES -- ROMAN EXPANSION IN ITALY -- THE SAMNITE WARS -- THE PYRRHIC WAR, 280-275 BC -- CHAPTER 2 THE MIDDLE REPUBLIC (264-133 BC) -- FIRST PUNIC WAR (264-241 BC) -- BETWEEN THE FIRST AND SECOND PUNIC WARS (241-218 BC) -- SECOND PUNIC WAR (218-201 BC) -- CAMPAIGNS IN SICILY AND SPAIN -- THE WAR IN AFRICA -- THE ESTABLISHMENT OF ROMAN HEGEMONY IN THE MEDITERANEAN WORLD -- ROMAN EXPANSION IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN -- ROMAN EXPANSION IN THE WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN -- EXPLANATIONS OF ROMAN EXPANSION -- BEGINNINGS OF PROVINCIAL ADMINISTRATION -- TRANSFORMATION DURING THE MIDDLE REPUBLIC -- CITIZENSHIP AND POLITICS IN THE MIDDLE REPUBLIC -- CULTURE AND RELIGION -- ECONOMY AND SOCIETY -- SOCIAL CHANGES -- ROME AND ITALY -- CHAPTER 3 THE LATE REPUBLIC (133-31 BC) -- AFTERMATH OF VICTORIES -- CHANGES IN PROVINCIAL ADMINISTRATION -- SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC ILLS -- THE REFORM MOVEMENT OF THE GRACCHI (133-121 BC) -- THE PROGRAM AND CAREER OF TIBERIUS SEMPRONIUS GRACCHUS -- THE PROGRAM AND CAREER OF GAIUS SEMPRONIUS GRACCHUS -- THE CAREER OF GAIUS MARIUS -- EVENTS IN ASIA -- DEVELOPMENTS IN ITALY -- CIVIL WAR AND THE RULE OF LUCIUS SULLA -- THE EARLY CAREER OF POMPEY -- POMPEY AND CRASSUS -- POLITICAL SUSPICION AND VIOLENCE -- THE FINAL COLLAPSE OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC (59-44 BC) -- POLITICAL MANEUVERS -- CIVIL WAR -- THE DICTATORSHIP AND ASSASSINATION OF CAESAR -- THE TRIUMVIRATE AND OCTAVIAN'S ACHIEVEMENT OF SOLE POWER.

INTELLECTUAL LIFE OF THE LATE REPUBLIC -- GRAMMAR AND RHETORIC -- LAW AND HISTORY -- PHILOSOPHY AND POETRY -- CHAPTER 4 THE EARLY ROMAN EMPIRE (31 BC-AD 193) -- THE CONSOLIDATION OF THE EMPIRE UNDER THE JULIO-CLAUDIANS -- THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE PRINCIPATE UNDER AUGUSTUS -- THE ROMAN SENATE AND THE URBAN MAGISTRACIES -- ADMINISTRATION OF ROME AND ITALY -- ADMINISTRATION OF THE PROVINCES -- THE ARMY -- FOREIGN POLICY -- ECONOMIC LIFE -- AUGUSTAN ART AND LITERATURE -- APPRAISAL OF AUGUSTUS -- THE SUCCESSION -- GROWTH OF THE EMPIRE UNDER THE FLAVIANS AND ANTONINES -- THE FLAVIAN EMPERORS -- THE EARLY ANTONINE EMPERORS: NERVA AND TRAJAN -- HADRIAN AND THE OTHER ANTONINE EMPERORS -- THE EMPIRE IN THE SECOND CENTURY -- TREND TO ABSOLUTE MONARCHY -- POLITICAL LIFE -- ROME AND ITALY -- DEVELOPMENTS IN THE PROVINCES -- THE ARMY -- CULTURAL LIFE -- CHAPTER 5 THE LATER ROMAN EMPIRE -- THE DYNASTY OF THE SEVERI (AD 193-235) -- SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS -- CARACALLA -- MACRINUS -- ELAGABALUS AND SEVERUS ALEXANDER -- RELIGIOUS AND CULTURAL LIFE IN THE THIRD CENTURY -- THE RISE OF CHRISTIANITY -- CULTURAL LIFE FROM THE ANTONINES TO CONSTANTINE -- MILITARY ANARCHY AND THE DISINTEGRATION OF THE EMPIRE (235-270) -- THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS -- DIFFICULTIES IN THE EAST -- ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CRISIS -- THE RECOVERY OF THE EMPIRE AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE DOMINATE (270-337) -- DIOCLETIAN -- STRUGGLE FOR POWER -- THE REIGN OF CONSTANTINE -- THE ROMAN EMPIRE UNDER THE FOURTH-CENTURY SUCCESSORS OF CONSTANTINE -- THE REIGN OF JULIAN -- THE REIGN OF VALENTINIAN AND VALENS -- THE REIGN OF GRATIAN AND THEODOSIUS I -- SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS -- THE REMNANTS OF PAGAN CULTURE -- THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH -- THE ECLIPSE OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE IN THE WEST (C. 395-500) AND THE GERMAN MIGRATIONS -- THE BEGINNING OF GERMANIC HEGEMONY IN THE WEST -- BARBARIAN KINGDOMS.

ANALYSIS OF THE DECLINE AND FALL -- APPENDIX A: TABLE OF ROMAN EMPERORS FROM 27 BC THROUGH AD 476 -- APPENDIX B: ANCIENT ITALIC PEOPLES -- AEQUIANS -- APULIANS -- AURUNCIANS -- BRUTTIANS -- ETRUSCANS -- HERNICIANS -- LATINS -- LIGURIANS -- MARSIANS -- MESSAPIANS -- PICENES -- SABINES -- SAMNITES -- SICANS -- SICELS -- UMBRIANS -- VENETIANS -- VESTINIANS -- VOLSCIANS -- GLOSSARY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- GENERAL WORKS -- ROME FROM ITS ORIGINS TO 264 BC -- THE MIDDLE REPUBLIC (264-133 BC) -- THE TRANSFORMATION OF ROME AND ITALY DURING THE MIDDLE REPUBLIC -- THE LATE REPUBLIC (133-31 BC) -- THE EARLY ROMAN EMPIRE (31 BC-AD 193) -- THE LATER ROMAN EMPIRE -- INDEX -- BACK COVER.