A History of Rome, vol 1

A History of Rome, vol 1

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Title: A History of Rome, Vol 1 During the late Republic and early
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Author: A H.J. Greenidge
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A HISTORY OF ROME
DURING THE LATER REPUBLIC AND EARLY PRINCIPATE
BY
A. H. J. GREENIDGE, M. A., D. LITT. TUTOR AND LATE
FELLOW OF HERTFORD COLLEGE AND LECTURER IN
ANCIENT HISTORY AT BRASENOSE COLLEGE, OXFORD
VOLUME I
FROM THE TRIBUNATE OF TIBERIUS GRACCHUS TO THE
SECOND CONSULSHIP OF MARIUS B.C. 133-104
WITH TWO MAPS
TO
B. G.
AND
T. G.

PREFACE
This work will be comprised in six volumes. According to the plan
which I have provisionally laid down, the second volume will cover the
period from 104 to 70 B.C., ending with the first consulship of
Pompeius and Crassus; the third, the period from 70 to 44 B.C., closing
with the death of Caesar; the fourth volume will probably be occupied
by the Third Civil War and the rule of Augustus, while the fifth and
sixth will cover the reigns of the Emperors to the accession of
Vespasian.
The original sources, on which the greater part of the contents of the
present volume is based, have been collected during the last few years

by Miss Clay and myself, and have already been published in an
abbreviated form. Some idea of the debt which I owe to modern authors
may be gathered from the references in the footnotes. As I have often,
for the sake of brevity, cited the works of these authors by shortened
and incomplete titles, I have thought it advisable to add to the volume a
list of the full titles of the works referred to. But the list makes no
pretence to be a full bibliography of the period of history with which
this volume deals. The map of the Wäd Mellag and its surrounding
territory, which I have inserted to illustrate the probable site of the
battle of the Muthul, is taken from the map of the "Medjerda
supérieure" which appears in M. Salomon Reinach's _Atlas de la
Province Romaine d'Afrique_.
I am very much indebted to my friend and former pupil, Mr. E.J.
Harding, of Hertford College, for the ungrudging labour which he has
bestowed on the proofs of the whole of this volume. Many
improvements in the form of the work are due to his perspicacity and
judgment.
A problem which confronts an author who plunges into the midst of the
history of a nation (however complete may be the unity of the period
with which he deals) is that of the amount of introductory information
which he feels bound to supply to his readers. In this case, I have felt
neither obligation nor inclination to supply a sketch of the development
of Rome or her constitution up to the period of the Gracchi. The
amount of information on the general and political history of Rome
which the average student must have acquired from any of the excellent
text-books now in use, is quite sufficient to enable him to understand
the technicalities of the politics of the period with which I deal; and I
was very unwilling to burden the volume with a _précis_ of a subject
which I had already treated in another work. On the other hand, it is not
so easy to acquire information on the social and economic history of
Rome, and consequently I have devoted the first hundred pages of this
book to a detailed exposition of the conditions preceding