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Provides a chronological index of the history of Ancient Rome with extensive links to internet resources. Emphasis is placed upon the use of primary source material and new perspectives upon the roles of women in ancient time.

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Antiquity - conflict, attitude and changing religions. An extremely extensive and informative site.

This is a just a little file of notes from some reading I was doing a couple years ago. Some day it may get fleshed out into a full treatment, with more battles, longer text, and maps, but it is pretty far down in the projects queue right now.

Below are inspiring quotations, in context and cross-indexed, from the classic History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Gibbon's work is superbly written and obviously apropos to life (and, alas, world events) today.

ERP consists of articles about the Roman provinces written by scholars and refereed by the members of the ERP Editorial Board. The plan of the encyclopedia contains information about the purpose, procedures, and assignments.

Welcome to the search for wisdom! I cordially invite you to join me in a great adventure through the consciousness of human experience. We are all members of humanity. Not only do we share the genes of our ancestors, but we also have received a legacy of cultural development in social institutions, literature, arts, science, and technology.

The Italian peninsula was inhabited principally by several native tribes before the Greeks settled there and the Etruscans rose to prominence sometime after 800 B.C.E. The Greeks founded several city-states in the south of the peninsula and in Sicily, and the Etruscans rose to power on the western coast where they brought their culture to the Latin peoples settled in small villages along the Tiber River. Here, three centuries later, a prosperous urban centre called Rome would emerge.

The book collects and studies the forgery of public documents in the late Roman republic. Cicero, Verres, Catilina, Caesar, Marcus Antonius, Octavianus the main protagonists considered

Many Links, Documents and Notes

The general drift of that story is westward. The early civilizations are Near Eastern, centered in the Fertile Crescent and in Egypt. The focus of a Western Civilization course then moves westward to Greece and then westward again to Rome.

Jews and the Later Roman Law 315-531 CE

Dutch - Brief overview of Roman history and politics with an annotated bibliography.

Some articles on Roman Empire

Edward Gibbon: General Observations on the Fall of the Roman Empire in the West

FIFTEEN DECISIVE BATTLES OF THE WORLD FROM MARATHON TO WATERLOO ACCORDING TO EDWARD SHEPHERD CREASY

Website devoted to the ancient history of the Eternal City and its Empire, with a special attention to the naval and maritime aspects. Pubblications, essays, ancient texts, bibliographies, links and image galleries.

Roman Expansion to 133 BC by Sanderson Beck

Rome 509 BC - AD 1453

In the steps of Hannibal at the scene of the battle

Scholars of Late Antiquity (the period roughly from A.D. 300-600) have long labored under the shadow of two monumental works: Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1787

he history of the Romans in Britain - 100BC to 450AD. Along with insights into Roman life, the military and how the Romans changed Britain. This site contains many fascinating articles about aspects of Roman life in Britain you never realised existed.

IN 53 B.C., the same year that Julius Caesar invaded Britain, the Roman general Marcus Licinius Crassus invaded Persia. He was over sixty, and looked older than his age, a round-faced bullet-headed man who thirsted for wealth and fame, and seems never to have been satisfied with the wealth and fame he had acquired. He had already fought in many batdes and shown himself to be a capable commander.

Everything you need to make your way through the vast Roman Empire and avoid its pirates, plagues, fires, conspiracies and, above all, wars.

Windows On Italy - History: Main Index PREHISTORIC ITALY Men and Culture from the Stone Age to the Iron Age THE EARLY ITALIC TRIBES Introduction Greek and Etruscan Colonization Roman Civilization The Republic Rome and Carthage The Empire MEDIEVAL...