A Short History of Rome
For Schools

First published in 1924, this informative book aimed to provide a concise yet coherent and contextual picture of Roman history for school students.

E. E. Bryant (Author)

9781316601662, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 25 February 2016

314 pages
23 x 12.7 x 2.2 cm, 0.4 kg

First published in 1924, as a second edition of a 1914 original, this informative book was aimed at school students and served to introduce a concise yet coherent and contextual picture of Roman history. The book explores, establishes and emphasizes the development of Roman character, social and political tendencies, the state of Italy and the Provinces and their relations to Rome, and the steps in the revolution during the last century of the Republic. Multiple photographs are included and a summary of the most important dates and events has been placed at the end of almost every chapter. This book provides a lucid and evocative examination of the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, paying careful attention to the background, which led to landmark historical events, and will be of value to scholars of history as well as to anyone with an interest in the history of education.

Preface
Preface to the second edition
1. The founding of Rome
2. The last kings of Rome
3. The early Republic to the time of the Decemviri
4. The equalization of the orders
5. The decay of Etruria and the invasion of the Gauls
6. The three Samnite wars and the Latin revolt
7. The war with Pyrrhus
8. The first Punic war
9. Preparations for a new struggle
10. The second Punic war till Cannae
11. The second Punic war. Cannae to Zama
12. Macedon, Antiochus and Greece
13. The destruction of Carthage and the Spanish wars
14. Rome, Italy and the provinces
15. The Gracchi
16. Jugurthine and the Cimbrian wars
17. Marius, the social war and Sulla
18. First Mithradatic war
19. Anarchy and Sulla's reforms
20. Collapse of Sulla's constitution - four wars
21. Cicero, Catiline and Caesar
22. Caesar in Gaul
23. Break-up of the coalition
24. The civil war and the rule of Caesar
25. The second civil war
26. Augustus
27. Tiberius to Domitian
28. Nerva to Commodus
29. The Severi to Aurelian
30. Diocletian and Constantine
Index.

Subject Areas: Ancient history: to c 500 CE [HBLA]