The History of Rome
The History of Rome
Julius Charles Hare
Connop Thirlwall
£43.99
GBPThis three-volume English translation of Barthold Georg Niebuhr's influential History of Rome was published between 1828 and 1842. It follows the second German edition, which the author contrasts with the earlier edition (1811–1812, translated into English in 1827) as being 'the work of a man who has reached his maturity'. The early part of the nineteenth century saw important developments in philological scholarship in Germany, and Niebuhr's international career as a statesman and scholar reflected Germany's new-found confidence in the wider world. His book had a lasting impact both within its own subject area and on the understanding of history as an academic discipline, and was a landmark of nineteenth-century European scholarship. Volume 1 covers the origins of Rome in Ancient Italy, up to the secession of the commonalty, and the Tribunate of the People.
Product details
May 2010Paperback
9781108012317
580 pages
216 × 140 × 33 mm
0.73kg
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I. Ancient Italy:
- 1. The Oenotrians and Pelasgians
- 2. The Opicans and Ausonians
- 3. The Aborigines and Latins
- 4. The Sabines and Sabellians
- 5. The Tuscans or Etruscans
- 6. The Umbrians
- 7. Iapygia
- 8. The Greeks in Italy
- 9. The Ligurians and Venetians
- 10. The Three Islands
- 11. Conclusion
- Part II. The Preliminary History of Rome:
- 12. Aeneas and the Trojans in Latium
- 13. Alba
- Part III. Rome:
- 14. Various traditions about the origin of the city
- 15. Romulus and Numa
- 16. Beginning and nature of the earliest history
- 17. The era from the foundation of the city
- 18. On the secular cycle
- 19. The beginning of Rome and its earliest tribes
- 20. The patrician houses and the curies
- 21. The senate, the interrexes, and the kings
- 23. Tullus Hostilius and Ancus
- 24. The Lay of L. Tarquinius Priscus and Servius Tullius
- 25. Examination of the stories of L. Tarquinius and Servius Tullius
- 26. The completion of the city of Rome
- 27. The six equestrian centuries
- 28. The commanlty and the plebeian tribes
- 29. The centuries
- 30. L. Tarquinius the tyrant and the banishment of the Tarquins
- 31. Commentary on the story of the last Tarquinius
- 32. The beginning of the republic and the treaty with Carthage
- 33. The war with Porsenna
- 34. The period down to the death of Tarquinius
- 35. The dictatorship
- 36. The commonalty before the secession, and the Nexi
- 37. The secession of the commonalty, and the tribunate of the people.
