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This is adapted from the study list for MIT OpenCourseWare: The Ancient World: Rome, Spring 2005
Early Rome (Livy……)
- Phoenicians
- rex ("king")
- senate
- comitia centuriata
- familia
- Latins, Latium
- gens
- pater familias
- Sicily
- Etruscans
- Kings (in Livy Book I)
- Aeneas
- Iupiter Optimus Maximus ("best & greatest")
The Roman Constitution
- Patricians/ plebeians (patricii/ plebs)
- Auspices
- Dictator
- Decemvirs
- Pontifex maximus, pontiffs
- Praetor
- Censor
- Volsci
- Veii
- Gauls, Battle at the Allia River
- Samnites, 3 Samnite Wars
- Imperium
- Tribune of the Plebs
- Plebeian Tribal Council (concilium plebis)
- Tribunes Licinius & Sextius (367 B.C.)
- Consul
- Quaestor
- Aedile
- Municipia
- Latin League , Latin Allies
- Tarentum
- Pyrrhus of Epirus King
Roman Imperialism
- Saguntum
- First Punic War
- Second Punic War
- King Hiero of Syracuse
- Hamilcar Barca
- Battle of Zama (202 B.C.)
- Ptolemies the
- Rhodes
- Philip V of Macedon
- Second Macedonian War
- Perseus
- Third Macedonian War
- Battle of Pydna (168 B.C.)
- Hannibal
- Mamertini
- Battle of Cannae (216 B.C.)
- P. Cornelius Scipio Africanus
- Sardinia
- Pergamon
- Fourth Macedonian War
- Third Punic War
- M. Porcius Cato the Elder
- provincia, "province," provincials
- L. Aemilius Paullus
- Scipio Aemilianus
- T. Quinctius Flamininus
Age of the Gracchi, Sulla, Marius
- equites equestrians
- Gaius Sempronius Gracchus
- populares
- Q. Metellus
- Social War
- latifundia
- Mithridates
- novus homo (a "new man": as Cato Sr., Marius, Cicero)
- Jugurtha
- M. Livius Drusus the Younger
- Gaius Marius
- Cimbri and Teutones
- L. Cornelius Sulla
- (Cornelius) Cinna
- Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus
- optimates ("best men")
- Battle of Arausio (105 B.C.)
- nobiles (nobles, aristocrats)
The Consequences of Empire, & First Triumvirate
- Catiline L. Sergius Catilina
- Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus
- Q. Sertorius
- L. Lucullus
- M. Licinius Crassus
- G. Verres
- First Triumvirate
- Ariovistus
- Stoicism
- Eunous
- M. Aemilius Lepidus
- M. Porcius Cato the Younger
- P. Clodius Pulcher
- Spartacus
- M. Tullius Cicero
- Judaea
- G. Julius Caesar
- Vercingetorix
- Siege of Alesia
- Epicureans
- libertus freedman
Caesar's Downfall, & Second Triumvirate
- Parthia
- River Rubicon
- Battle of Pharsalus (48 B.C.)
- Sextus Pompeius
- G. Cassius
- M. Junius Brutus
- Ides of March, 44 B.C.
- Battle of Philippi, 42 B.C.
- Cleopatra
- M. Vipsanius Agrippa
- M. Antonius (Mark Antony)
- Battle of Munda (45 B.C.)
- Second Triumvirate
- Octavian (to become "Augustus")
- Battle of Actium, 31 B.C.
Augustus
- Praetorian Guard
- Armenia
- Imperial Cult
- Vergil
- Livy
- "Augustus"
- tribunicia potestas
- princeps
- Vigiles
- Parthia
- Horace
- Tiberius Claudius Nero (Tiberius)
- M. Claudius Marcellus
- Gaius Caesar
- Lucius Caesar
The Julio-Claudians
- Germanicus
- Sejanus
- Vespasian
- Agrippina the Younger
- Claudius
- Seneca the Younger
- Great Fire of Rome (64 A.D.)
- Jewish War (A.D. 66-70)
- Titus
- Galba
- Otho
- Vitellius
- Gaius (= CALIGULA)]]
- Nero
- Golden House
- Earliest Persecution of Christians
- Vindex
- Domitian
The Second Century A.D.
The Rise of Christianity
The Pagan Background:
Early Christianity:
Third Century Crisis; Diocletian and Constantine; "Fall" (Transformation?) of the Roman Empire
- Commodus
- Septimius Severus
- Macrinus
- Severus Alexander
- Odenathus & Zenobia
- Curiales (Curial Class)
- Diocletian
- Constantine
- "Edict of Milan," 313 A.D.
- Constantinople
- Valentinian I & Valens
- Pertinax
- Caracalla
- Julia Domna
- Gallienus
- Goths
- Tetrarchy
- Donatus, Donatists
- Julian the Apostate
- Theodosius the Great
- Elagabalus
- Palmyra
- Aurelian
- Arian Heresy