n of Carthage; War with
Macedonia and the Achaean Confederacy; the Acquisition of Asia.
CHAPTER XI
THE ROMAN STATE AND THE EMPIRE: 265-133 B. C. 105
The Rule of the Senatorial Aristocracy; the Administration of
the Provinces; Social and Economic Development; Cultural
Progress.
CHAPTER XII
THE STRUGGLE OF THE OPTIMATES AND THE POPULARES: 133-78 B. C. 125
The Agrarian Laws of Tiberius Gracchus; the Tribunate of Caius
Gracchus; the War with Jugurtha and the Rise of Marius; the
Cimbri and the Teutons; Saturninus and Glaucia; the Tribunate
of Marcus Livius Drusus; the Italian or Marsic War; the First
Mithridatic War; Sulla's Dictatorship.
CHAPTER XIII
THE RISE OF POMPEY THE GREAT: 78-59 B. C. 151
Pompey's Command against Sertorius in Spain; the Command of
Lucullus against Mithridates; the Revolt of the Gladiators; the
Consulate of Pompey and Crassus; the Commands of Pompey against
the Pirates and in the East; the Conspiracy of Cataline; the
Coalition of Pompey, Caesar and Crassus.
CHAPTER XIV
THE RIVALRY OF POMPEY AND CAESAR: CAESAR'S DICTATORSHIP: 59-44 166
B. C.
Caesar, Consul; Caesar's Conquest of Gaul; the Civil War between
Caesar and the Senate; the Dictatorship of Julius Caesar.
CHAPTER XV
THE PASSING OF THE REPUBLIC: 44-27 B. C. 185
The Rise of Octavian; the Triumvirate of 43 B. C.; the victory
of Octavian over Antony and Cleopatra; Society and Intellectual
Life in the Last Century of the Republic.
PART III
THE PRINCIPATE OR EARLY EMPIRE: 27 B. C.-285 A. D.
CHAPTER XVI
THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE PRINCIPATE: 27 B. C.-14 A. D. 205
The Princeps; the Senate, the Equestrians and the Plebs; the
Military Establishment; the Revival of Religion and Morality;
the Provinces and the Frontiers; the Administration of Rome;
the Problem of the Succession; Augustus as a Statesman.
CHAPTER XVII
THE JULIO-CLAUDIAN LINE AND THE FLAVIANS: 14-96 A. D. 226
Tiberius; Caius Caligula; Claudius; Nero; the First War of the
Legions or the Year of the Four Emperors; Vespasian and Titus;
Domitian.
CHAPTER XVIII
FROM NERVA TO DIOCLETIAN: 96-285 A. D. 244
Nerva and Trajan; Hadrian; the Antonines; the Second War of the
Legions;