Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- PREFATORY NOTE BY THE TRANSLATOR
- EXTRACT FROM DR. MOMMSEN'S PREFACE
- Contents
- BOOK FIRST THE PERIOD ANTERIOR TO THE ABOLITION OF THE MONARCHY
- CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER II THE EARLIEST MIGRATIONS INTO ITALY
- CHAPTER III THE SETTLEMENTS OF THE LATINS
- CHAPTER IV THE BEGINNINGS OF ROME
- CHAPTER V THE ORIGINAL CONSTITUTION OF ROME
- CHAPTER VI THE NON-BURGESSES AND THE REFORMED CONSTITUTION
- CHAPTER VII THE HEGEMONY OF ROME IN LATIUM
- CHAPTER VIII THE UMBRO-SABELLIAN STOCK—BEGINNINGS OF THE SAMNITES
- CHAPTER IX THE ETRUSCANS
- CHAPTER X THE HELLENES IN ITALY.—MARITIME SUPREMACY OF THE TUSCANS AND CARTHAGINIANS
- CHAPTER XI LAW AND JUSTICE
- CHAPTER XII RELIGION
- CHAPTER XIII AGRICULTURE, TRADE, AND COMMERCE
- CHAPTER XIV MEASURING AND WRITING
- CHAPTER XV ART
- BOOK SECOND FROM THE ABOLITION OF THE MONARCHY IN ROME TO THE UNION OF ITALY
- APPENDIX: ON THE PATRICIAN CLAUDII
- ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS
CHAPTER I - INTRODUCTION
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2010
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- PREFATORY NOTE BY THE TRANSLATOR
- EXTRACT FROM DR. MOMMSEN'S PREFACE
- Contents
- BOOK FIRST THE PERIOD ANTERIOR TO THE ABOLITION OF THE MONARCHY
- CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER II THE EARLIEST MIGRATIONS INTO ITALY
- CHAPTER III THE SETTLEMENTS OF THE LATINS
- CHAPTER IV THE BEGINNINGS OF ROME
- CHAPTER V THE ORIGINAL CONSTITUTION OF ROME
- CHAPTER VI THE NON-BURGESSES AND THE REFORMED CONSTITUTION
- CHAPTER VII THE HEGEMONY OF ROME IN LATIUM
- CHAPTER VIII THE UMBRO-SABELLIAN STOCK—BEGINNINGS OF THE SAMNITES
- CHAPTER IX THE ETRUSCANS
- CHAPTER X THE HELLENES IN ITALY.—MARITIME SUPREMACY OF THE TUSCANS AND CARTHAGINIANS
- CHAPTER XI LAW AND JUSTICE
- CHAPTER XII RELIGION
- CHAPTER XIII AGRICULTURE, TRADE, AND COMMERCE
- CHAPTER XIV MEASURING AND WRITING
- CHAPTER XV ART
- BOOK SECOND FROM THE ABOLITION OF THE MONARCHY IN ROME TO THE UNION OF ITALY
- APPENDIX: ON THE PATRICIAN CLAUDII
- ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS
Summary
Ancient history.
The Mediterranean Sea with its various branches, penetrating far into the great Continent, forms the largest gulf of the ocean, and, alternately narrowed by islands or projections of the land and expanding to considerable breadth, at once separates and connects the three divisions of the Old World. The shores of this inland sea were in ancient times peopled by various nations, belonging in an ethnographical and philological point of view to different races, but constituting in their historical aspect one whole. This historic whole has been usually, but not very appropriately, entitled the history of the ancient world. It is in reality the history of civilization among the Mediterranean nations; and as it passes before us in its successive stages, it presents four great phases of development,—the history of the Coptic or Egyptian stock dwelling on the southern shore, the history of the Aramæan or Syrian nation, which occupied the east coast and extended into the interior of Asia as far as the Euphrates and Tigris, and the histories of the twinpeoples, the Hellenes and Italians, who received as their heritage the countries bordering on its European shores. Each of these histories was in its earlier stages connected with other regions and with other cycles of historical evolution, but each soon entered on its own peculiar career.
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- The History of Rome , pp. 3 - 7Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1862