The Rise of Rome

✍ Scribed by Gregory S. Aldrete

• Publisher: The Great Courses
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 230
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Professor Biography
Table of Contents
Course Scope
Lecture 1 • The City on the Tiber
Lecture 2 • The Monarchy and the Etruscans
Lecture 3 • Roman Values and Heroes
Lecture 4 • The Early Republic and Rural Life
Lecture 5 • The Constitution of the Roman Republic
Lecture 6 • The Unification of the Italian Peninsula
Lecture 7 • Roman Religion: Sacrifice, Augury, and Magic
Lecture 8 • The First Punic War: A War at Sea
Lecture 9 • The Second Punic War: Rome versus Hannibal
Lecture 10 • Rome Conquers Greece
Lecture 11 • The Consequences of Roman Imperialism
Lecture 12 • Roman Slavery: Cruelty and Opportunity
Lecture 13 • Roman Women and Marriage
Lecture 14 • Roman Children, Education, and Timekeeping
Lecture 15 • Food, Housing, and Employment in Rome
Lecture 16 • The Gracchi Attempt Reform
Lecture 17 • Gaius Marius the Novus Homo
Lecture 18 • Sulla the Dictator and the Social War
Lecture 19 • The Era of Pompey the Great
Lecture 20 • The Rise of Julius Caesar
Lecture 21 • Civil War and the Assassination of Caesar
Lecture 22 • Cicero and the Art of Roman Oratory
Lecture 23 • Octavian, Antony, and Cleopatra
Lecture 24 • Why the Roman Republic Collapsed
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