Table of Contents
By the same author ii
About the author v
List of Plates ix
Maps xiii
Introduction xix
Chapter 1 How did it come to this? 1
Chapter 2 The Social War (91-87 BCE) 11
Chapter 3 Sulla's First Civil War (88-87 BCE) 19
Chapter 4 Sulla's Second Civil War (82-81 BCE) 27
Chapter 5 The Spartacus Revolt (73-71 BCE) 41
Chapter 6 The Catiline Conspiracy (63-62 BCE) 51
Chapter 7 The Carrhae Disaster (53 BCE) 55
Chapter 8 The First Triumvirate: Julius Caesar, Pompey the Great and Marcus Licinius Crassus (59-53 BCE) 69
Chapter 9 Caesar's Gallic Wars (58-50 BCE) 75
Chapter 10 Caesar's Civil War (49-45 BCE) 93
Chapter 11 Power Politics and Assassination (44-43 BCE) 113
Chapter 12 The Second Triumvirate: Octavian, Mark Antony and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (43-33 BCE) 127
Chapter 13 Actium and Empire 141
Chapter 14 The Cleopatra Effect 147
Chapter 15 The Social and Literary Impact 151
Endnotes 183
Timeline 133-27 BCE 195
Bibliography 199
Primary Sources 227
Website? 229
Some Latin Terms 231
Appendix 1 Typical cursus honorum in the first century BCE 237
Appendix 2 Roman Assemblies 239
Index 241