r reading portions of my manuscript and for much helpful
criticism.

A. E. R. BOAK.
University of Michigan,
October, 1921

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION PAGE
THE SOURCES FOR THE STUDY OF EARLY ROMAN HISTORY xiii
PART I
THE FORERUNNERS OF ROME IN ITALY
CHAPTER I
THE GEOGRAPHY OF ITALY 3
CHAPTER II
PREHISTORIC CIVILIZATION IN ITALY 7
CHAPTER III
THE PEOPLES OF HISTORIC ITALY 13
The Etruscans; the Greeks.
PART II
THE EARLY MONARCHY AND THE REPUBLIC, FROM PREHISTORIC TIMES
TO 27 B. C.
CHAPTER IV
EARLY ROME TO THE FALL OF THE MONARCHY 25
The Latins; the Origins of Rome; the Early Monarchy; Early
Roman Society.
CHAPTER V
THE EXPANSION OF ROME TO THE UNIFICATION OF THE ITALIAN 33
PENINSULA: _C._ 509-265 B. C.
To the Conquest of Veii, _c._ 392 B. C.; the Gallic Invasion;
the Disruption of the Latin League and the Alliance of the
Romans with the Campanians; Wars with the Samnites, Gauls and
Etruscans; the Roman Conquest of South Italy; the Roman
Confederacy.
CHAPTER VI
THE CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF ROME TO 287 B. C. 47
The Early Republic; the Assembly of the Centuries and the
Development of the Magistracy; the Plebeian Struggle for
Political Equality; the Roman Military System.
CHAPTER VII
RELIGION AND SOCIETY IN EARLY ROME 61
CHAPTER VIII
ROMAN DOMINATION IN THE MEDITERRANEAN: THE FIRST PHASE--THE 67
STRUGGLE WITH CARTHAGE, 265-201 B. C.
The Mediterranean World in 265 B. C.; the First Punic War; the
Illyrian and Gallic Wars; the Second Punic War; the Effect of
the Second Punic War upon Italy.
CHAPTER IX
ROMAN DOMINATION IN THE MEDITERRANEAN: THE SECOND PHASE--ROME 89
AND THE GREEK EAST
The Second Macedonian War; the War with Antiochus the Great and
the AEtolians; the Third Macedonian War; Campaigns in Italy and
Spain.
CHAPTER X
TERRITORIAL EXPANSION IN THREE CONTINENTS: 167-133 B. C. 99
The Spanish Wars; the Destructio