Pinnock’s Improved Edition of Dr. Goldsmith’s History of Rome

Pinnock’s Improved Edition of Dr. Goldsmith’s History of Rome

Oliver Goldsmith, irish novelist, playwright and poet (1730-1774)


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Table of Contents

-01- About this book

-02- PREFACE

-03- PART I. INTRODUCTION

-04- CHAPTER I. GEOGRAPHICAL OUTLINE OF ITALY

-05- CHAPTER II. THE LATIN LANGUAGE AND PEOPLE

-06- CHAPTER III. THE TOPOGRAPHY OF ROME

-07- CHAPTER IV. THE ROMAN CONSTITUTION

-08- CHAPTER V. THE ROMAN TENURE OF LAND COLONIAL GOVERNMENT

-09- CHAPTER VI. THE ROMAN RELIGION

-10- CHAPTER VII. THE ROMAN ARMY AND NAVY

-11- CHAPTER VIII. ROMAN LAW FINANCE

-12- CHAPTER IX. THE PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS AND PRIVATE LIFE OF THE ROMANS

-13- CHAPTER X. GEOGRAPHY OF THE EMPIRE AT THE TIME OF ITS GREATEST EXTENT

-14- PART II. HISTORY OF ROME

-15- CHAPTER I. OF THE ORIGIN OF THE ROMANS

-16- CHAPTER II. FROM THE BUILDING OF ROME TO THE DEATH OF ROMULUS

-17- CHAPTER III. FROM THE DEATH OF ROMULUS TO THE DEATH OF NUMA POMPILIUS, THE SECOND KING OF ROME.—U.C. 38

-18- CHAPTER IV. FROM THE DEATH OF NUMA TO THE DEATH OF TULLUS HOSTILIUS THE THIRD KING OF ROME.—U.C. 82

-19- CHAPTER V. FROM THE DEATH OF TULLUS HOSTILIUS TO THE DEATH OF ANCUS MARTIUS THE FOURTH KING OF ROME.—U.C. 115

-20- CHAPTER VI. FROM THE DEATH OF ANCUS MARTIUS, TO THE DEATH OF TARQUINIUS PRISCUS THE FIFTH KING OF ROME.—U.C. 130

-21- CHAPTER VII. FROM THE DEATH OF TARQUINIUS PRISCUS TO THE DEATH OF SERVIUS TULLIUS THE SIXTH KING OF ROME.—U.C. 176

-22- CHAPTER VIII. FROM THE DEATH OF SERVIUS TULLIUS TO THE BANISHMENT OF TARQUINIUS SUPERBUS THE SEVENTH AND LAST KING OF ROME U.C. 220

-23- CHAPTER IX. THE COMMONWEALTH

-24- CHAPTER X. FROM THE CREATION OF THE DICTATOR TO THE ELECTION OF THE TRIBUNES.—U.C. 255

-25- CHAPTER XI. FROM THE CREATION OF THE TRIBUNES TO THE APPOINTMENT OF THE DECEMVIRI U.C. 260

-26- CHAPTER XII. FROM THE CREATION OF THE DECEMVIRI TO THE EXTINCTION OF THAT OFFICE U.C. 302

-27- CHAPTER XIII. FROM THE WARS WITH THE SAMNITES AND THOSE WITH PYRRHUS TO THE BEGINNING OF THE FIRST PUNIC WAR

-28- CHAPTER XV. FROM THE END OF THE FIRST PUNIC WAR TO THE END OF THE SECOND

-29- CHAPTER XVI. MACEDONIAN SYRIAN THIRD PUNIC AND SPANISH WARS

-30- CHAPTER XVII. FROM THE DESTRUCTION OF CARTHAGE TO THE END OF THE SEDITION OF THE GRACCHI U.C. 621

-31- CHAPTER XVIII. FROM THE SEDITION OF GRACCHUS TO THE PERPETUAL DICTATORSHIP OF SYLLA U.C. 634

-32- CHAPTER XIX. FROM THE PERPETUAL DICTATORSHIP OF SYLLA TO THE TRIUMVIRATE OF CÆSAR POMPEY AND CRASSUS U.C. 680

-33- CHAPTER XX. FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE FIRST TRIUMVIRATE, TO THE DEATH OF POMPEY U.C. 694

-34- CHAPTER XXI. FROM THE DESTRUCTION OF THE COMMONWEALTH TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE FIRST EMPEROR AUGUSTUS U.C. 706

-35- CHAPTER XXII. FROM THE ACCESSION OF AUGUSTUS TO THE DEATH OF DOMITIAN

-36- CHAPTER XXIII. THE FIVE GOOD EMPERORS OF ROME

-37- CHAPTER XXIV. FROM COMMODUS TO THE TRANSFERRING OF THE SEAT OF EMPIRE UNDER CONSTANTINE FROM ROME TO CONSTANTINOPLE U.C. 933. A.D. 180

-38- CHAPTER XXV. FROM THE DEATH OF CONSTANTINE TO THE RE-UNION OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE UNDER THEODOSIUS THE GREAT

-39- CHAPTER XXVI. FROM THE DEATH OF THEODOSIUS TO THE SUBVERSION OF THE WESTERN EMPIRE

-40- CHAPTER XXVII. HISTORICAL NOTICES OF THE DIFFERENT BARBAROUS TRIBES THAT AIDED IN DESTROYING THE ROMAN EMPIRE

-41- CHAPTER XXVIII. THE PROGRESS OF CHRISTIANITY