The History of Rome

A nineteenth-century book that revolutionised scholarly views on ancient Rome and the understanding of history as an academic discipline.

Barthold Georg Niebuhr (Author), Julius Charles Hare (Translated by), Connop Thirlwall (Translated by)

9781108012317, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 20 May 2010

580 pages
21.6 x 14 x 3.3 cm, 0.73 kg

This three-volume English translation of Barthold Georg Niebuhr's influential History of Rome was published between 1828 and 1842. It follows the second German edition, which the author contrasts with the earlier edition (1811–1812, translated into English in 1827) as being 'the work of a man who has reached his maturity'. The early part of the nineteenth century saw important developments in philological scholarship in Germany, and Niebuhr's international career as a statesman and scholar reflected Germany's new-found confidence in the wider world. His book had a lasting impact both within its own subject area and on the understanding of history as an academic discipline, and was a landmark of nineteenth-century European scholarship. Volume 1 covers the origins of Rome in Ancient Italy, up to the secession of the commonalty, and the Tribunate of the People.

Preface
Introduction
Part I. Ancient Italy: 1. The Oenotrians and Pelasgians
2. The Opicans and Ausonians
3. The Aborigines and Latins
4. The Sabines and Sabellians
5. The Tuscans or Etruscans
6. The Umbrians
7. Iapygia
8. The Greeks in Italy
9. The Ligurians and Venetians
10. The Three Islands
11. Conclusion
Part II. The Preliminary History of Rome: 12. Aeneas and the Trojans in Latium
13. Alba
Part III. Rome: 14. Various traditions about the origin of the city
15. Romulus and Numa
16. Beginning and nature of the earliest history
17. The era from the foundation of the city
18. On the secular cycle
19. The beginning of Rome and its earliest tribes
20. The patrician houses and the curies
21. The senate, the interrexes, and the kings
23. Tullus Hostilius and Ancus
24. The Lay of L. Tarquinius Priscus and Servius Tullius
25. Examination of the stories of L. Tarquinius and Servius Tullius
26. The completion of the city of Rome
27. The six equestrian centuries
28. The commanlty and the plebeian tribes
29. The centuries
30. L. Tarquinius the tyrant and the banishment of the Tarquins
31. Commentary on the story of the last Tarquinius
32. The beginning of the republic and the treaty with Carthage
33. The war with Porsenna
34. The period down to the death of Tarquinius
35. The dictatorship
36. The commonalty before the secession, and the Nexi
37. The secession of the commonalty, and the tribunate of the people.

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