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Republican and Imperial Rome
Lecture Outline
I. Prehistoric Italy
A.. Etruscans
B. Royal Rome
1. Government
2. Family
3. Clientage
4. Patricians and Plebeians
II. The Republic
A. Government
1. Consuls
2. Senate and Assembly
3. Struggle of the Orders
a. Tribunes
b. Twelve Tables
B. Conquest of Italy
1. Initial Expansion and Gallic Invasion
2. Roman Policy toward the Conquered
C. Rome and Carthage
1. First Punic War (264-241 B.C.E.)
2. Second Punic War (218-202 B.C.E.)
a. Hannibal
3. The New Imperial System
D. The Republic’s Conquest of the Hellenistic World
1. The East
2. The West: Third Punic War
III. Civilization in Early Roman Republic
A. Greek influence
1. Religion
2. Education
IV. Roman Imperialism
A. Aftermath of Conquest
1. Latifundia
B.. The Gracchi
1. populares
2. optimates
3. equestrians
C. Marius and Sulla
D. War Against the Italian Allies (90-88 B.C.E.)
E. Sulla’s Dictatorship
V. The Fall of the Republic
A. The First Triumvirate
1. Pompey, Crassus, and Caesar
B. Dictatorship of Julius Caesar
C. The Second Triumvirate and the Emergence of Octavian
1. MarK Antony, Octavian, and Lepidus
a. Battle of Actium
Vi. Augustan Principate
A. Octavian’s rule
B. Administration
C. The Army and Defense
D. Religion and Morality
VII. Civilization of the Ciceronian and Augustan Ages
A. The Late Republic
1. Cicero (106-43 B.C.E.)
2. Law
a. jus gentium
b. jus naturale
3, Poetry
B. The Age of Augustus
1. Virgil (70-19 B.C.E.)
a. Aeneid
2. Horace (65-8 B.C.E.)
3. Ovid (43 B .C.E.-18 C.E.)
4. History
5. Architecture & sculpture
VIII. Pax Romana:: Imperial Rome (14-180 C.E.)
A. Administration of the Empire
B. Culture of the Early Empire
1. Literature, Architecture, and Society
C. Life in Imperial Rome
IX. The Rise of Christianity
A. Jesus of Nazareth
B. Paul of Tarsus
1. Pharisees
C. Organization
1. Apostolic succession
D. Persecution of Christians
E. Emergence of Catholicism
1. orthodox v. heresy (heretics)
F. Rome as the Center of the Early Church
1.Petrine succession: primacy of Rome
X. The Crisis of the Third Century
A. Barbarian invasions
B. Economic Difficulties
C. The Social order
D. Civil Disorder
XII. The Late Empire
A. The Fourth Century and Imperial Reorganization
1. Diocletian (r. 284-305 C.E.)
a. Tetrarchy
2. Constantine (r. 324-337 C.E.)
a. Battle of Milvian Bridge
b. Administration and Finance
1. Edict of Maximum Prices
c. Division of the Empire
1. Germanic tribes
2. Battle of Adrianople (378 C.E.)
3. Eastern empire: Byzantium
XIII. Triumph of Christianity
A. Religious Currents in the Empire
1.Mystery religions
a. Cult of Isis/Mithras
B. Imperial Persecution
1. Great Persecution (303 C.E.)
2. Constantine: Edict of Milan (313 C.E.)
3. St. Ambrose & Theodosius
C. Arianism & Council of Nicaea
1. Arian heresy
2. Nicene Creed: trinitarianism
XIV. Arts and Letters in the Late Empire
A. Preservation of Classical Culture
B. Christian writers
1. Jerome (348-420 C.E.)
a. Vulgate
2. Augustine of Hippo (354-430)
a. Confessions
b. The City of God
C. Problem of Decline and Fall of the Empire in the West