DERIC WILLIAM FARRAR

_The Great Jewish Revolt_
_Siege and Destruction of Jerusalem (A.D. 70)_, 150
JOSEPHUS

_Destruction of Pompeii (A.D. 79)_, 207
PLINY
LYTTON

_The Jews' Last Struggle for Freedom_
_Their Final Dispersion (A.D. 132)_, 222
CHARLES MERIVALE

_Martyrdom of Polycarp and Justin Martyr_
_Polycarp's Epistle to the Philippians (A.D. 155)_, 231
HOMERSHAM COX
POLYCARP

_Persecution of the Christians in Gaul (A.D. 177)_, 246
FRANCOIS P. G. GUIZOT

_Beginning of Rome's Decline_
_Commodus (A.D. 180)_, 263
EDWARD GIBBON

_Eventful Reign of Sapor I, King of Persia (A.D. 241)_, 277
GEORGE RAWLINSON

_Conversion of Constantine_
_Decline of Paganism (A.D. 300-337)_, 289
JOHANN L. VON MOSHEIM

_First Nicene Council_
_Rise and Decline of Arianism (A.D. 325)_, 299
JOHANN L. VON MOSHEIM
ARTHUR P. STANLEY

_Foundation of Constantinople (A.D. 330)_, 320
EDWARD GIBBON

_Julian the Apostate Becomes Emperor of Rome (A.D. 360)_, 333
EDWARD GIBBON

_The Huns and Their Western Migration (A.D. 374-376)_, 352
MARCELLINUS

_Final Division of Roman Empire_
_The Disruptive Intrigues (A.D. 395)_, 364
J. B. BURY

_Universal Chronology (A.D. 13-409)_, 385
JOHN RUDD

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

VOLUME III

PAGE

_Famous painting of the head of Jesus Christ_ (_page 23_),
By Gabriel Max. Frontispiece

_Queen Thusnelda, wife of Arminius, taken prisoner
by the soldiers of the Roman general Germanicus_, 4
Painting by H. Koenig.

AN OUTLINE NARRATIVE

TRACING BRIEFLY THE CAUSES, CONNECTIONS, AND CONSEQUENCES OF

THE GREAT EVENTS

(THE PERIOD OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE)

CHARLES F. HORNE

So vast and wonderful a construction was the Roman world, so different
from our own, that we are apt to imagine it as an arrangement far more
deliberately planned, far more mechanically complete, than it appeared
to its own inhabitants.

From a cursory glance, we may carry away wholly mistaken conceptions of
its thought and purpose. Thus, for instance, the Roman Repu