From the Gracchi to Nero

From the Gracchi to Nero is an outstanding history of the Roman world from 133 BC to 68 AD. Fifty years since publication it is widely hailed as the classic survey of the period, going through many revised and updated editions until H.H. Scullard’s death. It explores the decline and fall of the Roman Republic and the establishment of the Pax Romana under the early Principate. In superbly clear style, Scullard brings vividly to life the Gracchi’s attempts at reform, the rise and fall of Marius and Sulla, Pompey and Caesar, society and culture in the late Roman Republic, the Augustan Principate, Tiberius and Gaius, Claudius and Nero, and economic and social life in the early Empire.

Table of Contents

Prefaces

Foreword to the Routledge Classicsedition

1. Rome at the Cross-Roads

2. The Gracchi

3. The Rise and Fall of Marius

4. The Rise and Fall of Sulla

5. The Rise of Pompey

6. Pompey and Caesar

7. The Domination of Caesar

8. The Second Triumvirate

9. Economic and Social Life in Italy and theIXProvinces in the Late Republic

10. Art, Literature and Thought in the Late Republic

11.The Augustan Principate

12. Frontiers and Provinces

13. Tiberius and Gaius

14. Claudius and Nero

15. Economic and Social Life in the Early Empire

16. Art, Literature and Religion in the Julio-Claudian Period.

Bibliography

Index