The Roman Empire

This sweeping history of the Roman Empire from 44 B.C. to A.D. 235 has three purposes: to describe what was happening in the central administration and in the entourage of the emperor; to indicate how life went on in Italy and the provinces, in the towns, in the countryside, and in the army camps; and to show how these two different worlds impinged on each other. Colin Wells's vivid account is now available in an up-to-date second edition.

Preface to the Second Edition

vii

List of Maps and Illustrations

xi

List of Abbreviations

xiii

Introduction

1

(10)

The New Order

11

(20)

The Sources

31

(18)

The Work of Augustus

49

(30)

Italy under Augustus: the Social and Intellectual Climate

79

(16)

The consolidation of the Principate

95

(28)

The Army and the Provinces in the First Century AD

123

(29)

`Emperors Made Elsewhere than at Rome': Galba to Trajan

152

(23)

The State of Italy from Petronius to Pliny

175

(27)

The Orderly Government of the Empire: Hadrian to Marcus Aurelius

202

(21)

``The Immeasurable Majesty of the Roman Peace'

223

(33)

An Age of Transition: Commodus to Maximinus the Thracian

256

(17)

Maps

273

(18)

Lists of dates:

Reigns of Roman Emperors, Augustus to Diocletian

285

(1)

Greek and Latin Authors Mentioned in this Book

286

(5)

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