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Rome and the West

by Wiliiam Stearns Davis. 416 pgs.

Contributors:

   Wiliiam Stearns Davis

Publisher:

   Allyn and Bacon

Place of Publication:

  Boston  

Publication Year:

  1912

Subjects:

History, Ancient, Rome--History

	CONTENTS
	CHAPTER I The First Roman Age
	Introduction	1
1.	Description of Italy. Pliny the Elder	2
2.	A Roman Rustic Festival. Ovid	5
3.	Part of an Early Latin Farmer's Calendar. Inscription	6
4.	Song of the Arval Brethren. Old Latin Fragment	6
5.	The Ancient Roman Form of Declaring War. Livy	7
6.	Numa and his Institution of the Vestals. Plutarch	9
7.	Brutus condemns his Own Sons to Death. Livy	15
8.	How Horatius held the Bridge. Livy	16
	CHAPTER II The Growth of the Republic
	Introduction	19
9.	The Secession of the Plebs and the First Tribunes. Livy	19
10.	How the Plebeians won the Consulship. Livy	23
11.	How Cincinnatus saved a Roman Army. Livy	27
12.	The Personal Traits and Characteristics of the Gauls. Ammianus Marcellinus	29
13.	The Geese of the Capitol. Livy	31
14.	The Censorship of Appius Claudius. Livy	33
15.	Cineas and Appius Claudius Cæcus. Plutarch	37
16.	The Training of Roman Nobles in the Best Period of the Republic. Heitland	41
17.	A Learned Greek's Analysis of the Roman Constitution. Polybius	42
18.	The Honesty of Roman Officials at the Best Period of the Republic. Polybius	48
19.	Roman State Funerals and their Influence. Polybius	50
	CHAPTER III The Death Struggle with Carthage
	Introduction	53
20.	Horace's Ode on Regulus's Departure for Carthage. Horace	54
21.	The Youth and Character of Hannibal. Livy	56
22.	Hannibal's Hostility to Rome. Cornelius Nepos	60
23.	How the Second Panic War was Declared. Livy	60
24.	Hannibal's Crossing of the Alps. Livy	62
25.	How the Romans greeted Varro on his Return from Cannæ. Livy	67
26.	"Hannibal at the Gates." Livy	68
27.	Marcellus and Archimedes at Syracuse. Plutarch	72
28.	The Battle of Zama. Livy	77
29.	Why Rome was Superior to Carthage. Polybius	80
30.	How Cato the Elder inveighed against Carthage. Plutarch	82
	CHAPTER IV The Decline of the Roman Republic
	Introduction	85
31.	How Polybius and Scipio the Younger became Friends. Polybius	86
32.	The Conduct and Treatment of Slaves. Plautus	90
33.	Cato the Elder on how to Manage Farm Slaves. Cato	91
34.	How a Faithful Slave should Act. Plautus	93
35.	Sparticus and the Slave Revolt. Plutarch	94
36.	The Austerity of Cato the Elder. Plutarch	97
37.	How Cato the Elder governed as Censor. Livy	99
38.	The Agrarian Situation in Italy in 133 B.C. Appian	103
39.	The Murder of Tiberius Gracchus. Plutarch	105
40.	How Jugurtha corrupted the Degenerate Senate. Sallust	109
41.	How Marius overthrew the Teutones. Plutarch	111
42.	The Reign of Terror under Sulla. Plutarch	115
43.	The Vast Power of Mithridates. Appian	118
44.	Lucullus's Triumph over Mithridates, and his Luxurious Mode of Life. Plutarch	119
45.	Pompey's Conquest of the East. Appian	123
46.	The Wealth and Habits of Crassus the Millionaire. Plutarch	127
47.	Quintus Cicero's Advice to his Brother when Candidate for the Consulship. Quintus Cicero	129
48.	Conditions in Rome while Catiline was Plotting. Sallust	135
49.	The Early Career of Julius Cæsar. Suetonius	138
	CHAPTER V The Founding of the Roman Empire
	Introduction	143
50.	Cæsar's Account of how he was forced to take up Arms. Cæsar	144
51.	The Crossing of the Rubicon. Suetonius	149
52.	Cæsar's Reforms while Dictator. Suetonius	150
53.	The Funeral of Cæsar. Appian	154
54.	The Personal Traits of Julius Cæsar. Suetonius	159
55.	How Cleopatra bewitched Antony. Plutarch	162
56.	The Deeds of Augustus. Monumentum Ancyranum. (Inscription)	166
57.	Egypt and its Condition and Government under Rome. Strabo	172
58.	Horace's Secular Hymn. Horace	174
59.	Story illustrating the Magnanimity of Augustus. Seneca	177
60.	Vergil's Glorification of the Julian Line. Vergil	178
61.	The Glories of Rome. Strabo	179
	CHAPTER VI The Deeds of the Emperors
	Introduction	182
62.	The Defeat of Varus. Velleius Paterculus	183
63.	A Discourse of Claudius in the Senate. Inscription	186
64.	A Typical Neronian Crime: the Murder of Britannicus. Tacitus	188
65.	The Great Fire at Rome in the Days of Nero. Cassius Dio	191
66.	How the Emperor Domitian tried to amuse the Roman Populace. Suetonius	194
67.	The Poet Statius banquets with his Lord God the Emperor. Statius	195
68.	Deeds and Anecdotes of the Emperor Hadrian. Ælius Spartianus	196
69.	The Character of Antoninus Pius. Marcus Aurelius	199
70.	The Reign of Marcus Aurelius. Eutropius	201
71.	How Didius Julianus bought the Roman Empire at Auction. Herodianus	203
72.	How the Goths devastated the Empire in the Reign of Gallienus. Jordanes	206
73.	How Aurelian conquered Zenobia. Vopiscus	207
	CHAPTER VII Public and Private Life under the Empire
	Introduction	211
74.	A Debate in the Senate in Imperial Times. Pliny the Younger	212
75.	The Correspondence of a Provincial Governor and the Emperor Trajan. Pliny the Younger	215
76.	A Business Panic in Rome. Tacitus	222
77.	Summary of Some Benefactions to Roman Cities by Private Individuals. Summarized by Duruy	224
78.	Martial on Phases of Life in Rome. Martial	225
79.	How Horace got an Education. Horace	227
80.	How Pliny endowed a School. Pliny the Younger	228
81.	Flogging Schoolmasters at Rome. Martial	230
82.	Contemporary Testimony to the Greatness and Beneficence of the Roman Empire. Collected by Duruy	231
83.	The Great Buildings in Rome. Pliny the Elder	232
84.	The Extent of the City of Rome. Pliny the Elder	235
85.	The Collapse of Houses and the Fires in Rome. Strabo	236
86.	The Mania for Literary Fame in Imperial Times. Friedlaender	237
87.	Oratory in the Roman Courts. Pliny the Younger	239
88.	The Life of a Refined Roman Gentleman. Pliny the Younger	240
89.	A Wealthy Roman's Fortune. Pliny the Elder	242
90.	A Roman Seaside Villa. Statius	243
91.	Letters about Private Life in Egypt under the Empire. Papyri	244
92.	A Diatribe against the Women of Rome. Juvenal	247
93.	The Gourmandizing of the Emperor Vitellius. Suetonius	250
94.	Luxury in the Use of Rings. Pliny the Elder	251
95.	The Bill of Fare of a Great Roman Banquet. Macrobius	253
96.	The Banquet of Trimalchio, the Rich Parvenu. Petronius	253
97.	Seneca on the Gladiatorial Butcheries. Seneca	259
98.	Seneca's Opinions upon Slavery. Seneca	259
99.	Wall Inscriptions from Pompeii. Inscriptions	260
	CHAPTER VIII Philosophical and Religious Life in the Last Pagan Centuries
	Introduction	266
	100. A Skeptic's Mockery of the Multiplicity of Pagan Gods. Lucian	267
101.	A Famous Religious Imposter of the Second Century. Lucian	269
102.	The Nature of Demons. Appuleius	270
103.	A Stoic on the Endurance of Hardship. Seneca	272
104.	How a Stoic met Calamity in the Days of Nero. Epictetus	274
105.	How All Things are under Divine Inspection. Epictetus	275
106.	Letters of Marcus Aurelius to his Master Fronto. Marcus Aurelius	277
107.	The Precepts of Marcus Aurelius. Marcus Aurelius	280
108.	Isis and her Worship. Appuleius	282
	CHAPTER IX The Later Roman Empire and the Christians
	Introduction	285
109.	Nero's Persecution of the Christians. Tacitus	286
110.	How a Female Martyr faced her Persecutors. Memoirs of St. Perpetua	287
111.	Certificate of having sacrificed to the Pagan Gods. Papyrus	289
112.	How the Roman Officials tried to seize Christian Books in 303 A.D. After Workman	289
113.	How Constantine overthrew Maxentius and favored Christianity. Eusebius	291
114.	How Constantine founded Constantinople. Sozomen	295
115.	A Christian's Testimony to the Divine Sanction for the Roman Empire. Aurelius Prudentius	297
116.	How St. Ambrose humiliated Theodosius the Great. Theodoret	298
117.	A Part of the Register of Dignitaries of the Roman Empire. From the Notitia Dignitatum	300
118.	How Theodosius the Great struck Awe into the Goths. Jordanes	304
119.	The Luxury and Arrogance of the Rich in Rome. Ammianus Marcellinus	306
	CHAPTER X The Dying Empire and the German Invaders
	Introduction	310
120.	The Death and Burial of Alaric the Visigoth. Jordanes	311
121.	Description of the Early Germans. Tacitus	312
122.	Effect upon the World of the Taking of Rome by Alaric. Professor Dill	316
123.	The Greatness of Rome even in the Days of Ruin. Rutilius Numantius	318
124.	A Picture of a Visigothic King. Sidonius Apollinaris	319
125.	An Account of the Person of Attila. Jordanes	322
126.	The Battle of the Catalaunian Plains or of Châlons. Jordanes	322
127.	The Youth and Rise to Power of Theodoric the Ostrogoth. Jordanes	325
128.	A Description of Constantinople under the Eastern Emperors. Professor Bury	327
129.	The Title of a Later Roman Emperor. Justinian	330
130.	The Imperial Law-making Power as defined by Justinian. Justinian	331
131.	How Clovis the Frank became a Catholic Christian. The Chronicle of St. Denys	331
132.	How Clovis disposed of a Rival. Gregory of Tours	335
133.	Typical Passages from the Law of the Salian Franks. The Lex Salica	337
	CHAPTER XI The Early Middle Ages and Charlemagne
	Introduction	341
134.	Manners and Life in Frankland in the Merovingian Period. Adapted from Parmentier	342
135.	Usages of the Church in the Early Middle Ages. Adapted from Parmentier	345
136.	St. Simeon Stylites and how he achieved Holiness. Evagrius	348
137.	Extracts from the Monastic Rule of St. Benedict. St. Benedict	350
138.	Legal Conditions and the Personality of Law during the Barbarian Settlement. Vinogradoff	352
139.	Medieval Ordeal Formulas. Collected by Henderson	355
140.	Typical Passages from the Koran. Mohammed	357
141.	The Opinion of Musa, the Saracen Conqueror of Spain, as to the Franks. Arabian Chronicles	362
142.	An Early Story of the Battle of Tours or Poitiers. Isadore of Beja	362
143.	Bagdad under the Abbaside Kalifs. After Ameer Ali	365
144.	How Pope Gregory I made Peace with the Lombards. Paulus Diaconus	367
145.	How Pepin the Short became King of the Franks: Chronicle of St. Denys	369
146.	Personal Traits of Charlemagne. Eginhard	370
147.	The Wars of Charlemagne. Eginhard	373
148.	How Charlemagne was crowned Emperor. Eginhard	376
149.	Selections from the Great Capitulary of Charlemagne. Henderson	377
	APPENDICES
	Roman Money and Measures	381
	List of Modern Translations Used	382
	A Select List of Books on Roman History	385
	Biographical Notes of Ancient Authors Cited	396

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