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The historians' history of the world in twenty-five volumes, volume 05 : $b the Roman Republic — John Shaqi

The historians' history of the world in twenty-five volumes, volume 05 : $b the Roman Republic

History

The historians' history of the world in twenty-five volumes, volume 05 : $b the Roman Republic

World history

The Macedonian War; war with Antiochus III, 296. Affairs of
    Carthage, 304. Outbreak of the Third Punic War, 305. Appian’s
    account of the destruction of Carthage, 310. The oration of
    Hasdrubal’s wife; Scipio’s moralising, 312. Plundering the
    city, 313. Sacrifices and the triumph, 314. The Achæan War,
    314. Spanish wars: fall of Numantia, 317. Florus on the fall of
    Numantia, 321. First Slave War in Sicily, 322. The war against
    the slaves, 325.

                               CHAPTER XIV

  CIVILISATION AT THE END OF THE PERIOD OF CONQUEST                    327

    Organisation of the government, 327. The army, 329. Polybius
    on Greek and Roman battle-orders, 329. The senate, 332. The
    centuriate assembly, 334. The assembly of the tribes, 334.
    Justice, 337. Provincial government, 337. Taxation, 338.
    Social conditions: the aristocracy and the people, 340. Slaves
    and freemen, 343. The Roman family: women and marriage, 346.
    Religion, 350. Treatment of other nations, 355. The fine arts,
    355. Literature, 358.

                               CHAPTER XV

  THE GRACCHI AND THEIR REFORMS (137-121 B.C.)                         359

    Tiberius Gracchus, 359. Return and death of Scipio the Younger,
    366. Caius Gracchus and his times, 371.

                               CHAPTER XVI

  THE JUGURTHINE AND OTHER WARS (123-101 B.C.)                         381

    The Jugurthine War, 383. Sallust’s account of Jugurtha at Rome,
    385. A war of bribery, 387. Metellus in command, 388. Marius
    appears as commander, 389. Plutarch on Jugurtha’s death, 391.
    The Cimbrians and the Teutons, 392. The Second Slave War, 399.

                              CHAPTER XVII

  THE BEGINNING OF CIVIL STRIFE (102-88 B.C.)                          401

    The sixth consulate of Marius, 402. Claims of the Latins and
    Italians to the civitas, 405. The Social War, 413. Marius
    assumes the command, 415.

                              CHAPTER XVIII

  MARIUS AND SULLA (92-82 B.C.)                                        420

    The First Mithridatic War, 421. The First Civil War, 422.
    Ihne’s estimate of Marius, 431. Sulla in Greece, 432.
    The return of Sulla; and the Second Civil War, 434. The
    proscriptions, 438.

                               CHAPTER XIX

  THE DICTATORSHIP OF SULLA (81-79 B.C.)                               442

    Sulla’s legislation, 446. Abdication of Sulla, 446. Rome’s debt
    to Sulla, 448. The Roman provinces, 450. The career of Verres,
    454.

                               CHAPTER XX

  THE RISE OF POMPEY (78-61 B.C.)                                      457

    Lepidus and Sertorius, 457. The war of the Gladiators, 460.
    The consulship of Pompey and Crassus, 461. Pompey subdues the
    Cilician pirates, 464. The Second and Third Mithridatic wars,
    467. The Armenian War, 469. The end of Mithridates, 473. Pompey
    in Jerusalem, 474.

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