The Historians’ History of the World, Volume VI

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Editor

Williams, Henry Smith, 1863-1943

Title

The historians' history of the world in twenty-five volumes, volume 06 : the early Roman Empire

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Produced by David Edwards and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

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English

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D: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere

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World history

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Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 58124

Release Date

October 17, 2018

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Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE HISTORIANS’ HISTORY OF THE WORLD
2. 2.Contributors, and Editorial Revisers.
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.THE EARLY ROMAN EMPIRE: A SKETCH — THE WEALTH OF ROMAN INSCRIPTIONS — THE MEANING OF IMPERIAL ROMAN HISTORY — ROMAN INFLUENCE IN THE WEST — CONSTRUCTIVE FORCES OF THE EMPIRE — UNFULFILLED POSSIBILITIES — REFORMS OF AUGUSTUS — Taxation Reforms — THE EMPIRE AND THE PAGAN CREED — THE EMPIRE AND CHRISTIANITY — INEVITABLE DECAY — FOOTNOTES
5. 5.BOOK II THE EARLY ROMAN EMPIRE — INTRODUCTION THE SCOPE, THE SOURCES, AND THE CHRONOLOGY OF THE HISTORY OF ROME UNDER THE EMPERORS — THE SOURCES OF IMPERIAL HISTORY — THE FIRST CENTURY OF EMPIRE: AUGUSTUS TO NERO (30 B.C. -68 A.D. ) — THE SECOND CENTURY OF EMPIRE: GALBA TO MARCUS AURELIUS (68-180 A.D. ) — THE THIRD CENTURY OF EMPIRE: COMMODUS TO CLAUDIUS II (180-270 A.D. ) — THE FOURTH CENTURY OF EMPIRE: AURELIAN TO THEODOSIUS (270-395 A.D. ) — THE WESTERN DOMINIONS IN THE FIFTH CENTURY OF EMPIRE (395-476 A.D. ) — FOOTNOTES — CHAPTER XXIX. THE EMPIRE AND THE PROVINCES — AUGUSTUS MAKES EGYPT HIS PRIVATE PROVINCE — ADMINISTRATION OF THE PROVINCES — ARMY AND NAVY UNDER AUGUSTUS — CHAPTER XXX. THE GERMAN PEOPLE AND THE EMPIRE — THE GERMAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE AGAINST ROME — THE BATTLE OF TEUTOBURG FOREST — THE CAMPAIGNS OF GERMANICUS [3] — GERMANICUS RECALLED TO ROME — END OF MARBODUUS AND ARMINIUS — FOOTNOTES — CHAPTER XXXI. THE AGE OF AUGUSTUS—ASPECTS OF ITS CIVILISATION — EMPIRE IS PEACE — COMPARISON BETWEEN AUGUSTUS AND NAPOLEON III — THE ROMAN EMPIRE COMPARED WITH MODERN ENGLAND — THE ROMAN CONSTITUTION — AUGUSTUS NAMED IMPERATOR FOR LIFE — THE IMPERATOR NAMED PRINCEPS SENATUS AND PONTIFEX MAXIMUS — TIGHTENING THE REINS OF POWER — PANEM ET CIRCENSES—FOOD AND GAMES — NOVUM SECULUM—THE NEW BIRTH FOR ROME — LITERATURE OF THE GOLDEN AGE — MERIVALE’S ESTIMATE OF LIVY — LIVY AS THE ARTISTIC LIMNER OF THE ROMAN PEOPLE — THE SPIRIT OF THE TIMES — FOOTNOTES — CHAPTER XXXII. THE LAST YEARS OF AUGUSTUS — THE PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF AUGUSTUS — A BRIEF RÉSUMÉ OF THE CHARACTER AND INFLUENCE OF AUGUSTUS — FOOTNOTES — CHAPTER XXXIII. THE IMMEDIATE SUCCESSORS OF AUGUSTUS: TIBERIUS, CALIGULA, AND CLAUDIUS — Tiberius (Tiberius Claudius Nero Cæsar) , 14-37 A.D. — Caligula (Caius Julius Cæsar Caligula) , 37-41 A.D. — Claudius (Tiberius Claudius Drusus Cæsar) , 41-54 A.D. — FOOTNOTES — CHAPTER XXXIV. NERO: LAST EMPEROR OF THE HOUSE OF CÆSAR — Nero Claudius Cæsar Drusus Germanicus : 54-68 A.D. — FOOTNOTES — CHAPTER XXXV. GALBA, OTHO, VITELLIUS, AND THE THREE FLAVIANS (68-96 A.D. ) — Galba (Servius Sulpicius Galba) , 68-69 A.D. — Otho (M. Salvius Otho) , 69 A.D. — Vitellius (Aulus Vitellius) , 69 A.D. — Vespasian (T. Flavius Sabinus Vespasianus) , 69-70 A.D. — Titus (T. Flavius Sabinus Vespasianus II ) 79-81 A.D. — Domitian (Titus Flavius Domitianus) , 81-96 A.D. — FOOTNOTES — CHAPTER XXXVI. THE FIVE GOOD EMPERORS: NERVA TO MARCUS AURELIUS (96-180 A.D. ) — Nerva (M. Cocceius Nerva) , 96-98 A.D. — Trajan (M. Ulpius Trajanus Crinitus) , 98-117 A.D. — Hadrian (P. ÆLius Hadrianus) , 117-138 A.D. — Antoninus (Titus Aurelius Antoninus Pius) , 138-161 A.D. — Marcus Aurelius (M. Ælius Aurelius Antoninus) , 161-180 A.D. — FOOTNOTES — CHAPTER XXXVII. THE PAGAN CREEDS AND THE RISE OF CHRISTIANITY — STOICISM AND THE EMPIRE — CHRISTIANS AND THE EMPIRE — THE CHRISTIAN AND THE JEW — RELIGIOUS ASSEMBLIES OF THE CHRISTIANS — CHRISTIANITY AND THE LAW — THE INFANCY OF THE CHURCH — PERSECUTIONS UNDER NERO — PERSECUTION UNDER TRAJAN AND THE ANTONINES — FOOTNOTES — CHAPTER XXXVIII. ASPECTS OF CIVILISATION OF THE FIRST TWO CENTURIES OF THE EMPIRE — THE SPIRIT OF THE TIMES — MANNERS AND CUSTOMS — SUPPERS AND BANQUETS — THE CIRCLES — PUBLIC READINGS — LIBRARIES AND BOOK-MAKING — THE CEREMONY OF A ROMAN MARRIAGE — THE STATUS OF WOMEN — PATERNAL AUTHORITY AND ADOPTION: THE SLAVERY OF CHILDREN — THE INSTITUTION OF SLAVERY — GAMES AND RECREATIONS — SHEPPARD’S ESTIMATE OF THE GLADIATORIAL CONTEST — FOOTNOTES — CHAPTER XXXIX. A HALF CENTURY OF DECLINE: COMMODUS TO ALEXANDER SEVERUS — Commodus (180-192 A.D. ) — Pertinax (P. Helvius Pertinax) , 193 A.D. — Julianus (M. Didius Severus Julianus) , 193 A.D. — Severus (L. Septimius Severus) , 193-211 A.D. — Caracalla (M. Aurelius Antoninus Caracalla) , 211-217 A.D. — Macrinus (M. Opilius Macrinus) , 217-218 A.D. — Elagabalus (Narius Avibus Bassianus) , 218-222 A.D. — Alexander Severus (M. Aurelius Alexander Severus) , 222-235 A.D. — FOOTNOTES — CHAPTER XL. CONFUSION WORSE CONFOUNDED: THE SECOND HALF OF THE THIRD CENTURY OF EMPIRE (235-285 A.D. ) — Maximin (C. Julius Verus Maximinus) , 235-238 A.D. — Rival Emperors, and the Death of Maximin — Pupienus (M. Clodius Pupienus Maximus), Balbinus (D. Cælius Balbinus), and Gordian (M. Antonius Gordianus) , 238-244 A.D. — Philip (M. Julius Philippus) , 244-249 A.D. — Decius (C. Messius Quintus Trajanus Decius) , 249-251 A.D. — Gallus (C. Vibius Trebonianus Gallus) , 251-253 A.D. — Æmilianus (C. Julius Æmilianus) , 253 A.D. — Valerian (P. Licinius Valerianus) and Gallienus (P. Licinius Gallienus) , 253-260 A.D. — Gallienus (P. Licinius Gallienus) , 260-268 A.D. — Claudius (M. Aurelius Claudius) , 268-270 A.D. — Aurelian (L. Domitius Aurelianus) , 270-275 A.D. — Tacitus (M. Claudius Tacitus) , 275-276 A.D. — Probus (M. Aurelius Probus) , 276-282 A.D. — Carus, Numerianus, and Carinus (282-285 A.D. ) — FOOTNOTES — CHAPTER XLI. NEW HOPE FOR THE EMPIRE: THE AGE OF DIOCLETIAN AND CONSTANTINE — DIOCLETIAN APPOINTS MAXIMIAN CO-REGENT — THE FOURFOLD DIVISION OF POWER — DIOCLETIAN PERSECUTES THE CHRISTIANS — ABDICATION OF DIOCLETIAN AND MAXIMIAN; THE TWO NEW CÆSARS — STRIFE AMONG THE RULERS — CONSTANTINE WARS WITH MAXENTIUS — STRUGGLE BETWEEN CONSTANTINE AND LICINIUS — THE LONG TRUCE BETWEEN THE EMPERORS; REFORMS OF CONSTANTINE — CONSTANTINE AND LICINIUS AGAIN AT WAR — CONSTANTINE, SOLE RULER, FOUNDS CONSTANTINOPLE — THE OLD METROPOLIS AND THE NEW: ROME AND CONSTANTINOPLE — CHARACTER OF CONSTANTINE THE GREAT — CONSTANTINE AND CRISPUS — THE HEIRS OF CONSTANTINE — THE AGED CONSTANTINE AND THE SARMATIANS — LAST DAYS OF CONSTANTINE — FOOTNOTES — CHAPTER XLII. THE SUCCESSORS OF CONSTANTINE TO THE DEATH OF JULIAN (337-363 A.D. ) — WAR OF THE BROTHER EMPERORS — CONSTANTIUS AND MAGNENTIUS — CONSTANTIUS SOLE EMPEROR — THE FATE OF GALLUS — CONSTANTIUS AND JULIAN — THE QUADIAN AND SARMATIAN WARS — SAPOR’S INVASION OF MESOPOTAMIA — JULIAN IN GAUL — JULIAN REPULSES THE ALAMANNI AND THE FRANKS — EXPEDITION BEYOND THE RHINE — JULIAN AS CIVIC RULER — THE JEALOUSY OF CONSTANTIUS — JULIAN ACCLAIMED AUGUSTUS — CONSTANTIUS versus JULIAN — THE DEATH OF CONSTANTIUS; JULIAN SOLE EMPEROR — THE RELIGION OF JULIAN — JULIAN INVADES THE EAST — A BATTLE BY THE TIGRIS — THE PURSUIT OF SAPOR — JULIAN’S DEATH — FOOTNOTES — CHAPTER XLIII. JOVIAN TO THEODOSIUS (363-395 A.D. ) — ELECTION OF JOVIAN (FLAVIUS CLAUDIUS JOVIANUS) — SAPOR ASSAILS THE ROMANS — THE HUMILIATION OF THE ROMANS — VALENTINIAN AND VALENS — INVASION OF THE GOTHS IN THE EAST (375); BATTLE OF HADRIANOPOLIS AND DEATH OF VALENS (378) — VALENS MARCHES AGAINST THE GOTHS — THEODOSIUS NAMED AUGUSTUS — VIRTUES OF THEODOSIUS — TUMULT IN ANTIOCH — THE SEDITION OF THESSALONICA — THEODOSIUS AND AMBROSE — LAST DAYS OF THEODOSIUS — FOOTNOTES — CHAPTER XLIV. THE DIVISION OF THE EMPIRE (395) — ARCADIUS AND HONORIUS SUCCEED THEODOSIUS — ALARIC INVADES GREECE — FOOTNOTES — CHAPTER XLV. THE GOTHS IN ITALY — ALARIC INVADES ITALY — HONORIUS RETIRES TO RAVENNA; ATTALUS NAMED EMPEROR — ATTALUS DEPOSED; ROME SACKED BY ALARIC — DEATH OF ALARIC; SUCCESSION OF ATAWULF — CONSTANTINE AND GERONTIUS; CONSTANTIUS — FOOTNOTES — CHAPTER XLVI. THE HUNS AND THE VANDALS — THE GOTHIC HISTORIAN JORDANES ON THE BATTLE OF CHÂLONS — THE INVASION OF ITALY: THE FOUNDATION OF VENICE — THE RETREAT OF ATTILA — FOOTNOTES — CHAPTER XLVII. THE FALL OF ROME — THE BARBARIAN EMPEROR-MAKERS — A REVIEW OF THE BARBARIAN ADVANCE — A FULFILLED AUGURY — BREYSIG’S OBSERVATIONS ON THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE IN THE WEST — FOOTNOTES — APPENDIX A. HISTORY IN OUTLINE OF SOME LESSER NATIONS OF ASIA MINOR — THE KINGDOM OF PERGAMUS (283-133 B.C. ) — THE KINGDOM OF BITHYNIA (278-74 B.C. ) — THE KINGDOM OF PONTUS (337 B.C. -63 A.D. ) — THE KINGDOM OF CAPPADOCIA ( c. 333 B.C. -17 A.D. ) — APPENDIX B. THE ROMAN STATE AND THE EARLY CHRISTIAN CHURCH — I — II — III — IV — BRIEF REFERENCE-LIST OF AUTHORITIES BY CHAPTERS — Chapter XXIX. — Chapter XXX. — Chapter XXXI. — Chapter XXXII. — Chapter XXXIII. — Chapter XXXIV. — Chapter XXXV. — Chapter XXXVI. — Chapter XXXVII. — Chapter XXXVIII. — Chapter XXXIX. — Chapter XL. — Chapter XLI. — Chapter XLII. — Chapter XLIII. — Chapter XLIV. — Chapter XLV. — Chapter XLVI. — Chapter XLVII. — A GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ROMAN HISTORY BASED CHIEFLY UPON THE WORKS QUOTED, CITED, OR CONSULTED IN THE PREPARATION OF THE PRESENT WORK; WITH CRITICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES — A. Classical and Later Latin Works — B. The Byzantine or Later Greek Histories — C. Modern Works

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