The History of Rome

"One of the imperishable books of history." The History Book Club Review. This abridged edition makes the great German scholar's multi-volume work accessible to a larger audience. Rivaling Gibbon, Macaulay, and Burckhardt in its scope and power, it chronicles Roman society and government from the second century BC to the end of the Republic and rise of Julius Caesar and helped earn Mommsen the 1902 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Nobel Prize–winning author Theodor Mommsen (1817–1903) was one of the 19th century's greatest historians. A professor at the University of Berlin, he was for 50 years a member of the Prussian Academy of Science.

Introduction I The Reform Movement and Tiberius Gracchus II The Revolution and Gaius Gracchus III Rule of the Restoration IV Revolt of the Italian Subjects and the Sulpician Revolution V Return of Sulla and the Sullan Constitution VII The Fall of the Oligarchy and the Rule of Pompey VIII Struggle of the Parties During the Absence of Pompey IX Retirement of Pompey and the Coalition of the Pretenders X Joint Rule of Pompey and Caesar XI Rupture between the Joint Rulers XII Civil War: Brundisium, Ilerda, and Dyrrhacium XIII Civil War: Pharsalus and Thaspus XIV The Old Republic and the New Monarchy: I XV The Old Republic and the New Monarchy: II Glossary Index