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

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character?--Two parties look at the growing influence of ideas from
Greece--What were those influences?--How Rome coveted Eastern

conquests--How Flamininus fought at the Dog-heads--How the
Grecians cried for joy at the Isthmian games --Great battles at
Thermopylæ and Magnesia, and their results-- Philopoemen, Hannibal,
and Scipio die--The battle of Pydna marks an era--Greece despoiled of
its works of art--Cato wishes 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
Vercellæ--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--Cæsar, 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 Cæsar, and how Cæsar 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--Cæsar pushes
himself to the front--The last agrarian law--Cæsar's success in Gaul--
Vercingetorix appears--Cæsar's conquests.
XVI.
HOW THE TRIUMVIRS CAME TO UNTIMELY ENDS
Pompey builds a theatre--Crassus must make his mark--Cato against
Cæsar--Curio helps Cæsar--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 Cæsar--The calendar
reformed--Cæsar 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 Cæsar--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--Cæsar and Catullus--Lucretius--Ovid and
Tibullus--Sallust--Livy--Horace-- Cornelius Nepos--Virgil and his
works--Life at the villa of Mæcenas.
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