- Maps
- Theatre of War (264–241 BC)
- Italy in the War with Hannibal
- The Eastern Empire
- The Roman Empire under Hadrian
- Note on the Abbreviations in the Text
- Introduction: The Path to Empire
- I. War (264–201 BC)
- 1. The Invasion of Sicily (264 BC)
- 2. War by Land and Sea (263–241 BC)
- 3. Rome and Italy (240–217 BC)
- 4. Hannibal
- 5. Cannae (216 BC)
- 6. Victory (201 BC)
- II. Empire (200–146 BC)
- 7. Macedon
- 8. Victory in the East
- 9. The Home Front
- 10. Carthage Must Be Destroyed (146 BC)
- III. Revolution (146–88 BC)
- 11. Tiberius Gracchus and the Sovereignty of the People
- 12. Gaius Gracchus and the Rise of the Contractors
- 13. A Critic’s View
- 14. Marius: Politics and Empire
- 15. Civil Wars (91–88 BC)
- IV. Dictatorship (88–36 BC)
- 16. Sulla Triumphant
- 17. Sulla’s Rome
- 18. Sulla’s Legacies
- 19. Politics in a Post-Sullan World
- 20. 63 BC
- 21. Law and Disorder
- 22. Pompey and Caesar
- 23. Caesarians and Pompeians
- V. Monarchy (36 BC–AD 138)
- 24. Imperator Caesar Augustus
- 25. The Augustan Empire
- 26. Eccentricity and Bureaucracy
- 27. Three Murders and the Emergence of an Imperial Society
- 28. Dynasties Come and Go
- 29. Reimagining Rome
- 30. The View from Tivoli
- 31. What Happened
- Notes on Sources
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Index
HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT WORLD


The Origin of Empire
Rome from the Republic to Hadrian
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