The Story of Rome From the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic | Page 3

Carthage destroyed--Numantia destroyed--The slaves in Sicily give trouble.
XII.
A FUTILE EFFORT AT REFORM
Scipio gives away his daughter--Tiberius Gracchus serves the state-- Romans without family altars or tombs--Cornelia urges Gracchus to do somewhat for the state--Gracchus misses an opportunity--Another son of Cornelia comes to the front--The younger Gracchus builds roads and makes good laws--Drusus undermines the reformer--Office looked upon as a means of getting riches--Marius and Sulla appear--Jugurtha fights and bribes--Metellus, the general of integrity--Marius captures Jugurtha--A shadow falls upon Rome--A terrible battle at Vercell?--The slaves rise again--The Domitian law restricts the rights of the senate--The ill- gotten gold of Toulouse.
XIII.
SOCIAL AND CIVIL WARS
The agrarian laws of Appuleius--Luxury increases and faith falls away-- Rome for the Romans--Another Drusus appears--The brave Marsians menace Rome--Ten new tribes formed--A war with Mithridates of Pontus--Marius and Sulla struggle and Marius goes to the wall--Sulla besieges Athens-- Sulla threatens the senate--The capitol burned--A battle at the Colline Gate--Proscription and carnage--Sulla makes laws and retires to see the effect--A _congiarium_--A grand funeral and a cremation.
XIV.
THE MASTER-SPIRITS OF THIS AGE
Tendency towards monarchy--Sertorius and his white fawn--Crassus and his great house--Cicero, the eloquent orator--Verres, the great thief-- How Verres ran away--Catiline the Cruel--C?sar, the man born to rule-- Looking for gain in confusion--Lepidus flees after the fight of the Mulvian bridge--How the two young men caused gladiators to fight--What Spartacus did--Six thousand crosses--Pompey overawes the senate.
XV.
PROGRESS OF THE GREAT POMPEY
Pompey the principal citizen--Crassus feeds the people at ten thousand tables--How the pirates caught C?sar, and how C?sar caught the pirates --Gabinius makes a move--The Manilian law sets Pompey further on-- Mithridates fights and flees--Times of treasons, stratagems, and spoils--Catiline plots--The sacrilege of Clodius--C?sar pushes himself to the front--The last agrarian law--C?sar's success in Gaul-- Vercingetorix appears--C?sar's conquests.
XVI.
HOW THE TRIUMVIRS CAME TO UNTIMELY ENDS
Pompey builds a theatre--Crassus must make his mark--Cato against C?sar--Curio helps C?sar--Solemn jugglery of the pontiffs--Curio warm enough--At the Rubicon--Crossing the little river--Pompey stamps in vain--Cato flees from Rome--Metellus stands aside--Pompey killed-- _Veni, vidi, vici_--Honors and plans of C?sar--The calendar reformed--C?sar has too much ambition--'T was one of those coronets-- The Ides of March--Antony, the actor--Antony the chief man in Rome-- What next?.
XVII.
HOW THE REPUBLIC BECAME AN EMPIRE
How Octavius became a C?sar--Agrippa and Cicero give him their help-- Octavius wins the soldiers, and Cicero launches his Philippics--Antony, Lepidus, and Octavius become Triumvirs--Their first work a bloody one-- Cicero falls--Brutus and Cassius defeated at Philippi--Antony forgets Fulvia--Antony and Octavius quarrel and meet for discussion at Tarentum--How Horace travelled to Brundusium--The duration of the Triumvirate extended five years--Cleopatra beguiles Antony a second time--The great battle off Actium--Octavius wins complete power, and a new era begins--The Republic ends.
XVIII.
SOME MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE ROMAN PEOPLE
How did these people live?--The first Roman house--The vestibule and the dark room--The dining-room and the parlor--Rooms for pictures and books--Cooking taken out of the atrium--How the houses were heated and lighted--Life in a villa--The extravagance of the pleasure villa--When a man and a woman had agreed to marry--How the bride dressed and what the groom did--The wife's position and work--The stola and the _toga_--Foot-gear from soccus to _cothurnus_--Breakfast, luncheon, and dinner--The formal dinner--How the Romans travelled, and how they sought office--The law and its penalties.
XIX.
THE ROMAN READING AND WRITING
Grecian influence on Roman mental culture--Textbooks--Cato and Varro on education--Dictation and copy-books--The early writers--Fabius Pictor-- Plautus--Terence--Atellan plays--Cicero's works--Varro's works--C?sar and Catullus--Lucretius--Ovid and Tibullus--Sallust--Livy--Horace-- Cornelius Nepos--Virgil and his works--Life at the villa of M?cenas.
XX.
THE ROMAN REPUBLICANS SERIOUS AND GAY
The will of the gods sought for--The first temples--Festivals in the first month--Vinalia and Saturnalia--Fires of Vulcan and Vesta-- Matronly and family services--No mythology at first--Colleges of priests needed--An incursion of Greek philosophers--Games of childhood --Checkers and other games of chance--The people cry for games--Games in the circus--The amphitheatre invented--Men and beasts fight--Funeral ceremonies--Charon paid--The mourning procession--Inurning the ashes --The columbarium--The Roman May-day--Change from rustic simplicity to urban orgies.
INDEX.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
MAP OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE MAP OF ANCIENT ROME VIEW OF THE COLOSSEUM AND PORTION OF MODERN ROME THE PLAIN OF TROY IN MODERN TIMES ROMAN GIRLS WITH A STYLUS AND WRITING-TABLET A ROMAN ALTAR MONUMENT OF THE HORATII AND THE CURIATII MOUTH OF THE CLOACA MAXIMA AT THE TIBER, AND THE SO-CALLED TEMPLE OF VESTA ROMAN SOLDIERS, COSTUMES AND ARMOR THE RAVINE OF DELPHI THE CAPITOL RESTORED ROMAN STREET PAVEMENT A PHOENICIAN VESSEL (TRIREME) A ROMAN WAR-VESSEL HANNIBAL TERENCE, THE LAST ROMAN COMIC POET PUBLIUS CORNELIUS SCIPIO AFRICANUS A ROMAN MATRON ROMAN HEAD-DRESSES GLADIATORS AT A FUNERAL ACTORS' MASKS A ROMAN MILE-STONE IN A ROMAN STUDY PLAN OF A ROMAN CAMP IN THE TIME OF THE REPUBLIC POMPEY (CNEIUS POMPEIUS MAGNUS) CAIUS JULIUS C?SAR GLADIATORS TRIUMPHAL PROCESSION OF A ROMAN GENERAL INTERIOR OF A ROMAN HOUSE A ROMAN POETESS THE FORUM ROMANUM IN MODERN TIMES AN ELEPHANT IN ARMOR ITALIAN AND GERMAN ALLIES, COSTUMES AND ARMOR INTERIOR OF THE FORUM