The Comic History of Rome

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Author

À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811-1856

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Produced by Margo Romberg, crana and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

DG: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Italy, Vatican City, Malta

Subject

Rome -- History -- Humor

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Text

eBook-No.

37657

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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37657

Release Date

October 7, 2011

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE — COMIC HISTORY OF ROME,
2. 2.BY GILBERT ABBOTT À BECKET. — ILLUSTRATED BY JOHN LEECH. — PREFACE
3. 3.CONTENTS.
4. 4.ENGRAVINGS ON STEEL.
5. 5.ENGRAVINGS ON WOOD.
6. 6.COMIC HISTORY OF ROME.
7. 7.CHAPTER THE FIRST. — FROM THE FOUNDATION OF ROME TO THE DEATH OF ROMULUS.
8. 8.CHAPTER THE SECOND. — FROM THE ACCESSION OF NUMA POMPILIUS TO THE DEATH OF ANCUS MARTIUS.
9. 9.CHAPTER THE THIRD. — FROM THE ACCESSION OF TARQUINIUS PRISCUS TO THE DEATH OF SERVIUS TULLIUS.
10. 10.CHAPTER THE FOURTH. — FROM THE ACCESSION OF TARQUINIUS SUPERBUS TO THE BANISHMENT OF THE ROYAL FAMILY, AND THE ABOLITION OF THE KINGLY DIGNITY.
11. 11.CHAPTER THE FIFTH. — FROM THE BANISHMENT OF TARQUINIUS SUPERBUS TO THE BATTLE OF LAKE REGILLUS.
12. 12.CHAPTER THE SIXTH. — FROM THE BATTLE OF THE LAKE REGILLUS TO THE CLOSE OF THE WAR WITH THE VOLSCIANS.
13. 13.CHAPTER THE SEVENTH. — FROM THE CLOSE OF THE WAR WITH THE VOLSCIANS TO THE PASSING OF THE BILL OF TERENTILLUS.
14. 14.CHAPTER THE EIGHTH. — FROM THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE DECEMVIRATE TO THE TAKING OF VEII.
15. 15.CHAPTER THE NINTH. — FROM THE TAKING OF ROME BY THE GAULS, TO ITS SUBSEQUENT PRESERVATION BY MANLIUS.
16. 16.CHAPTER THE TENTH. — FROM THE TRIBUNESHIP OF C. LICINIUS TO THE DEFEAT OF THE GAULS BY VALERIUS.
17. 17.CHAPTER THE ELEVENTH. — FROM THE FIRST WAR AGAINST THE SAMNITES TO THE PASSING OF THE LAWS OF PUBLILIUS.
18. 18.CHAPTER THE TWELFTH. — FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE SECOND TO THE END OF THE THIRD SAMNITE WAR.
19. 19.CHAPTER THE THIRTEENTH. — ON THE PEACEFUL OCCUPATIONS OF THE ROMANS. FROM SCARCITY OF SUBJECT, NECESSARILY A VERY SHORT CHAPTER.
20. 20.CHAPTER THE FOURTEENTH. — FROM THE END OF THE THIRD SAMNITE WAR TO THE SUBJUGATION OF ALL ITALY BY THE ROMANS.
21. 21.CHAPTER THE FIFTEENTH. — THE FIRST PUNIC WAR.
22. 22.CHAPTER THE SIXTEENTH. — SOME MISCELLANEOUS WARS OF ROME.
23. 23.CHAPTER THE SEVENTEENTH. — THE SECOND PUNIC WAR.
24. 24.CHAPTER THE EIGHTEENTH. — CONCLUSION OF THE SECOND PUNIC WAR.
25. 25.CHAPTER THE NINETEENTH. — WAR WITH THE MACEDONIANS. PROCLAMATION OF THE FREEDOM OF GREECE BY FLAMINIUS. WAR WITH ANTIOCHUS. DEATH OF HANNIBAL, AND OF SCIPIO AFRICANUS.
26. 26.CHAPTER THE TWENTIETH. — PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS. MORALS, MANNERS, CUSTOMS, AND STATE OF THE DRAMA AND LITERATURE AMONG THE ROMANS.
27. 27.CHAPTER THE TWENTY-FIRST. — WARS AGAINST PERSEUS. THE THIRD PUNIC WAR. SIEGE AND DESTRUCTION OF CARTHAGE, AND DITTO DITTO OF CORINTH.
28. 28.CHAPTER THE TWENTY-SECOND. — WARS IN SPAIN. VIRIATHUS. DESTRUCTION OF NUMANTIA. THE SERVILE WAR IN SICILY. APPROPRIATION OF PERGAMUS.
29. 29.CHAPTER THE TWENTY-THIRD — THE GRACCHI AND THEIR MOTHER. RISE AND FALL OF TIBERIUS AND CAIUS GRACCHUS.
30. 30.CHAPTER THE TWENTY-FOURTH. — THE JUGURTHINE WAR. WAR AGAINST THE CIMBRI AND TEUTONI.
31. 31.CHAPTER THE TWENTY-FIFTH. — MITHRIDATES, SULLA, MARIUS, CINNA, ET CÆTERA.
32. 32.CHAPTER THE TWENTY-SIXTH. — DEATH OF CINNA. RETURN OF SULLA TO ROME. C. PAPIRIUS CARBO. DICTATORSHIP OF SULLA.
33. 33.CHAPTER THE TWENTY-SEVENTH. — REACTION AGAINST THE POLICY OF SULLA. SERVICES OF Q. SERTORIUS. METELLUS. CN. POMPEY. SPIRITED STEPS OF SPARTACUS. THE IRATE PIRATE.
34. 34.CHAPTER THE TWENTY-EIGHTH. — THE THIRD MITHRIDATIC WAR. DEPOSITION AND DEATH OF MITHRIDATES.
35. 35.CHAPTER THE TWENTY-NINTH. — CONSPIRACY OF CATILINE. INTRODUCTION OF CICERO. CÆSAR, POMPEY, CRASSUS, AND CO.
36. 36.CHAPTER THE THIRTIETH. — OVERTHROW OF CRASSUS. DEFEAT OF POMPEY. DICTATORSHIP AND DEATH OF CÆSAR. END OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC. — WORKS PUBLISHED BY — BRADBURY AND EVANS. — "ONCE A WEEK." — THE NATURE-PRINTED BRITISH SEA-WEEDS. — THE NATURE-PRINTED BRITISH FERNS. — SELECTIONS FROM THE PLAYS OF SHAKSPEARE. — A LITTLE TOUR IN IRELAND. — MR. BRIGGS AND HIS DOINGS (FISHING). — A SERIES OF TWELVE COLOURED PLATES. — THE ROMAN REPUBLIC; — BY HORACE MOULE, — THE WORKS OF WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR. — IMAGINARY CONVERSATIONS OF GREEKS AND ROMANS. — ANTONY AND OCTAVIUS: SCENES FOR THE STUDY. — LAST FRUIT OFF AN OLD TREE. — AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN ITALIAN REBEL. — A DESCRIPTIVE DICTIONARY OF THE INDIAN ISLANDS, &C. — WORKS BY MR. CHARLES DICKENS. — CHEAP EDITION OF THE WORKS OF MR. CHARLES DICKENS. — CHRISTMAS STORIES OF CHARLES DICKENS. — BOOKS FOR MR. DICKENS'S READINGS. — COMPLETE LIBRARY EDITION OF THE WORKS OF MR. CHARLES DICKENS. — WORKS OF DOUGLAS JERROLD. — THE COLLECTED EDITION — THE WRITINGS OF DOUGLAS JERROLD. — THE FOLLOWING ARE PUBLISHED SEPARATELY:— — FOUR PORTRAITS OF DOUGLAS JERROLD.
37. 37.VALUABLE WORKS OF REFERENCE. — CONDUCTED BY CHARLES KNIGHT. — THE CYCLOPÆDIA OF BIOGRAPHY. — THE CYCLOPÆDIA OF GEOGRAPHY. — THE CYCLOPÆDIA OF NATURAL HISTORY. — THE CYCLOPÆDIA OF ARTS AND SCIENCES — NATURE-PRINTED BRITISH FERNS AND SEA-WEEDS. — OCTAVO NATURE-PRINTED BRITISH FERNS. — NATURE-PRINTED BRITISH SEA-WEEDS.
38. 38.ILLUSTRATED WORKS. — PICTURES OF LIFE AND CHARACTER. — YOUNG TROUBLESOME; Or , MASTER JACKY'S HOLIDAYS. — THE FOREIGN TOUR OF MESSRS. BROWN, JONES, AND ROBINSON. — MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE ENGLISH. — THE COMIC HISTORY OF ENGLAND. — THE COMIC HISTORY OF ROME.
39. 39.SPORTING WORKS. — WITH COLOURED ENGRAVINGS, AND NUMEROUS WOODCUTS, — MR. SPONGE'S SPORTING TOUR. — HANDLEY CROSS; Or , MR. JORROCKS'S HUNT. — ASK MAMMA; Or , THE RICHEST COMMONER IN ENGLAND. — PLAIN, OR RINGLETS? — MR. BRIGGS AND HIS DOINGS. (FISHING.)
40. 40.WORKS BY W. M. THACKERAY. — THE VIRGINIANS. — THE NEWCOMES. — VANITY FAIR. — PENDENNIS. — HISTORY OF SAMUEL TITMARSH. — A COLLECTED EDITION OF MR. THACKERAY'S EARLY WRITINGS. — MISCELLANIES IN PROSE AND VERSE.
41. 41.WORKS ON GARDENING AND BOTANY. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — VII. — VIII. — IX. — X. — XI. — XII.
42. 42.MISCELLANEOUS WORKS. — CHARLES KNIGHT'S
43. 43.POPULAR HISTORY OF ENGLAND. — Transcriber's Notes

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