Ancient Rome

William E. Dunstan is a visiting scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and teaches at North Carolina State University.

Chapter 1: Early Italy
Chapter 2: Origins of Rome
Chapter 3: The Young Republic
Chapter 4: Roman Conquest of Italy
Chapter 5: Duel with Carthage
Chapter 6: Roman Conquest of the Mediterranean World
Chapter 7: Impact of Overseas Conquests on the Senatorial Oligarchy
Chapter 8: Impact of Overseas Conquests of the Economic and Social Organization of Italy
Chapter 9: Greek Cultural Influences on Rome
Chapter 10: Rival Conceptions of State and Society Plague Roman Politics: From the Gracchi to the Social War
Chapter 11: Sulla
Chapter 12: Pompey and Caesar
Chapter 13: Antony and Octavian Wrestle for Empire: Final Dissolution of the Old Republican Order
Chapter 14: Economic, Social, and Cultural Climate of the Late Republic
Chapter 15: Augustus and the Founding of the Roman Empire
Chapter 16: Augustan Social and Religious Policy
Chapter 17: Augustan Art and Literature and the Augustan Legacy
Chapter 18: From Tiberius to Nero: The Julio-Claudian Dynasty
Chapter 19: From Vespasian to Domitian: The Flavian Dynasty
Chapter 20: From Nerva to Marcus Aurelius: The Five Good Emperors
Chapter 21: Government, Economy, and Society in the First and Second Centuries
Chapter 22: Architecture and Sculpture in the First and Second Centuries
Chapter 23: Literature in the First and Second Centuries
Chapter 24: Commodus and the Severan Dynasty
Chapter 25: Third-Century Imperial Crisis and First Phase of Recovery
Chapter 26: Reorganization of Diocletian and Constantine
Chapter 27: Last Years of the United Empire
Chapter 28: Society and Culture in the Later Empire
Chapter 29: Rise of Christianity
Chapter 30: Christian Triumph and Controversy
Chapter 31: Dismemberment of the Roman Empire in the West
Epilogue: The Thousand-Year Survival of the Roman Empire in the East
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