Produced by Louise Hope, D Alexander, Juliet Sutherland, Håkon Hope and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net [This e-text comes in three forms: UTF-8, Latin-1 and ASCII. Use the one that works best on your text reader. --In the UTF-8 version, quotation marks and apostrophes are “curly” or angled. --In the Latin-1 version, the word “interréd” has an accent on the “e”; citations use the “section” mark (always in pairs); and the names on the title page are separated by raised dots · at mid-line. --In the ASCII-7 or rock-bottom version, section marks are rendered as the word “Secs.”, and the raised dots will display as a simple period. Typographical errors are listed at the end of the e-text.] [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 OXFORD AT THE CLARENDON PRESS London   Edinburgh   Glasgow   Copenhagen New York   Toronto   Melbourne   Cape Town Bombay   Calcutta   Madras   Shanghai 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 Cicero XIII Caius Julius Caesar LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS