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Title: Ancient Rome
The Lives of Great Men

Author: Mary Agnes Hamilton

Release Date: October 3, 2010 [EBook #34025]

Language: English

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[Illustration: RUINS OF A ROMAN TOWN--POMPEII]

[Illustration: ROME AND THE TIBER]

ANCIENT ROME

_The Lives of Great Men_

told by

MARY AGNES HAMILTON

Brutus and Tarquin . Lucretia . Mucius . Cloelia . Regulus
Marcus Curtius . Coriolanus . Volumnia . Pyrrhus
Fabricius . Hamilcar . Hannibal . Flaminius . Fabius
Marcellus . The Scipios . The Gracchi . Cato . Marius
Drusus . Sulla . Mithridates . Lucullus . Pompeius
Crassus . Cicero . Caesar

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OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Humphrey Milford

1922

CONTENTS [added by transcriber]

I INTRODUCTORY: The People and City of Rome
II The Early Heroes
III The Great Enemies of Rome
IV The Scipios
V The Gracchi
VI Cato the Censor
VII Caius Marius and Lucius Cornelius Sulla
VIII The New Rome
IX Lucius Licinius Lucullus
X Cnaeus Pompeius
XI Marcus Licinius Crassus
XII Marcus Tullius Ci