Table of Contents
Acknowledgements ix
List of Plates x
List of Diagrams xi
List of Maps xii
Timeline xx
Introduction xxiv
Part 1 The Republic
Chapter 1 Rome's Peninsular Wars 3
Chapter 2 The Roman War Machine 16
Chapter 3 The Sources 31
Chapter 4 The Fourth Century: the Gallic Invasion and the Samnite Wars 35
Chapter 5 The Third Century: the Wars with Pyrrhus, the Punic Wars and the Gallic Invasion 47
Chapter 6 The Second Century: the Spanish Wars, Viriathus and the Invasion of the Northmen 81
Chapter 7 The First Century: the Social War, Spartacus, Mithridates, Crassus, the Parthians and the Gauls 90
Chapter 8 'Doom Monster' - Cleopatra VII 132
Part 2 The Empire
Chapter 9 The Early Empire: Clades Lolliana 16 BC, the Teutohurg Forest AD 9 153
Chapter 10 Boudica's Revolt AD 60 165
Chapter 11 Beth-Horon AD 66 and the Jewish War AD 68 178
Chapter 12 Carnuntum AD 170; the Crisis of the Third Century - Abritus AD 251, Edessa AD 260 192
Chapter 13 The Theban Legion Massacre AD 286 199
Chapter 14 Adrianople AD 378 204
Chapter 15 Alaric's Sack of Rome AD 410 216
Epilogue 223
Appendix 1 Typical Cursus Honorum in the Second Century BC 224
Appendix 2 Roman Assemblies 225
Appendix 3 The Seven Kings of Rome 226
Appendix 4 Some Carthaginian Generals 227
Appendix 5 Greek and Roman Authors 230
Appendix 6 Glossary of Greek and Latin Terms 238
Notes 245
Bibliography 260
Index of Battles, Sieges and Wars 303
General Index 305
