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Title: The Historians' History of the World in Twenty-Five Volumes, Volume 6

       The Early Roman Empire

Author: Various

Editor: Henry Smith Williams

Release Date: October 17, 2018 [EBook #58124]

Language: English

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THE HISTORIANS’ HISTORY OF THE WORLD

MOMMSEN

THE HISTORIANS’

HISTORY

OF THE WORLD

A comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations

as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of

all ages: edited, with the assistance of a distinguished

board of advisers and contributors,

by

HENRY SMITH WILLIAMS, LL.D.

IN TWENTY-FIVE VOLUMES

VOLUME VI—THE EARLY ROMAN EMPIRE

T^he Outlook Company

New York

T^he History Association

London

1904

Copyright, 1904,

By HENRY SMITH WILLIAMS.

All rights reserved.

Press of J. J. Little & Co.

Astor Place, New York

Contributors, and Editorial Revisers.

Prof. Adolf Erman, University of Berlin.

Prof. Joseph Halévy, College of France.

Prof. Thomas K. Cheyne, Oxford University.

Prof. Andrew C. McLaughlin, University of Michigan.

Prof. David H. Müller, University of Vienna.

Prof. Alfred Rambaud, University of Paris.

Prof. Eduard Meyer, University of Berlin.

Dr. James T. Shotwell, Columbia University.

Prof. Theodor Nöldeke, University of Strasburg.

Prof. Albert B. Hart, Harvard University.

Dr. Paul Brönnle, Royal Asiatic Society.

Dr. James Gairdner, C.B., London.

Prof. Ulrich von Wilamowitz Möllendorff, University of Berlin.

Prof. H. Marnali, University of Budapest.

Dr. G. W. Botsford, Columbia University.

Prof. Julius Wellhausen, University of Göttingen.

Prof. Franz R. von Krones, University of Graz.

Prof. Wilhelm Soltau, Zabern University.

Prof. R. W. Rogers, Drew Theological Seminary.

Prof. A. Vambéry, University of Budapest.

Prof. Otto Hirschfeld, University of Berlin.

Baron Bernardo di San Severino Quaranta, London.

Prof. F. York Powell, Oxford University.

Dr. John P. Peters, New York.

Dr. S. Rappoport, School of Oriental Languages, Paris.

Prof. Hermann Diels, University of Berlin.

Prof. C. W. C. Oman, Oxford University.

Prof. I. Goldziher, University of Vienna.

Prof. E. C. Fleming, University of West Virginia.

Prof. R. Koser, University of Berlin.

CONTENTS

VOLUME VI

THE EARLY ROMAN EMPIRE

PAGE

The Early Roman Empire: A Sketch

, by Dr. Otto Hirschfeld

1

INTRODUCTION

The Scope, the Sources and the Chronology of the History of Imperial Rome

15

CHAPTER XXIX

The Empire and the Provinces

(15

B.C.

-14

A.D.

)

25

Augustus makes Egypt his private province,

43

. Administration of the provinces,

47

. Army and navy under Augustus,

49

.

CHAPTER XXX

The German People and the Empire

(16

B.C.

-19

A.D.

)

56

The German War of Independence against Rome,

59

. The battle of Teutoburg Forest,

64

. The campaigns of Germanicus,

69

. Victories of Germanicus,

71

. Gruesome relics in Teutoburg Forest,

72

. The return march,

72

. Battling with Arminius,

74

. Germanicus recalled to Rome,

76

. End of Marboduus and Arminius,

76

.

CHAPTER XXXI

The Age of Augustus: Aspects of its Civilisation

(30

B.C.

-14

A.D.

)

78

Empire is peace,

78

. Comparison between Augustus and Napoleon III,

80

. The Roman Empire compared with modern England,

84

. The Roman constitution,

86

. Augustus named imperator for life,

87

. The imperator named Princeps Senatus and Pontifex Maximus,

88

. Tightening the reins of power,

90

. Panem et Circenses: Food and games,

91

. Pauperising the masses,

92

. Games: Gladiatorial contests,

94

. Races and theatricals,

96

. Novum seculum: The new birth for Rome,

97

. Literature of the Golden Age,

101

. Merivale’s estimate of Livy,

107

. Livy as the

artistic limner of the Roman people,

109

. The spirit of the times,

112

.

CHAPTER XXXII

The Last Years of Augustus

(21

B.C.

-14

A.D.

)

116

The personal characteristics of Augustus,

120

. A brief résumé of the character and influence of Augustus,

129

.

CHAPTER XXXIII

The Immediate Successors of Augustus: Tiberius, Caligula, and Claudius

(14-54

A.D.

)

133

Tiberius (Tiberius Claudius Nero Cæsar),

133

. Expeditions of Germanicus; victory of Idistavisus,

134

. Early years of successful government by Tiberius,

134

. Death of Germanicus; external affairs,