With commanding skill, Thomas R. Martin tells the remarkable and dramatic story of how a tiny, poor, and threatened settlement grew to become, during its height, the dominant power in the Mediterranean world for 500 years.
Chapter 1: Introduction and Background
Chapter 2: Roman Values, The Family, and Religion
Chapter 3: From the Founding of Rome to the Republic
Chapter 4: War and Expansion During the Republic
Chapter 5: The Destruction of the Republic
Chapter 6: From Republic to Empire
Chapter 7: From the Julio-Claudians to the Empire’s Golden Age
Chapter 8: From Jesus to Crisis in the Early Empire
Chapter 9: From Persecution to Christianization in the Later Empire
Chapter 10: Barbarian Migrations and the Fates of the Empire