Chronology

509 bc

Overthrow of Etruscan supremacy at Rome. End of the early monarchy. The first consuls appointed

343–341

First Samnite War

326–304

Second Samnite War

321

Caudine Forks

298–290

War with Samnites, Etruscans and Gauls

281–272

War with Tarentum and Pyrrhus

264–241

First Punic War

250

Roman naval disaster at Drepanum

229–228

First Illyrian War

218–201

Second Punic War

217

Battle of Lake Trasimene

216

Cannae

215

Alliance of Hannibal and Philip V of Macedon

204

Scipio invades Africa

202

Battle of Zama

197

Battle of Cynocephalae

192–189

War with Antiochus the Great and Aetolians

191

Antiochus defeated at Thermopylae

168

Battle of Pydna

149–146

Third Punic War

136–132

Slave War in Sicily

89

First Mithridatic War

88

Massacre of Italians in Asia

73–71

Revolt of the Gladiators

60

Coalition of Pompey, Caesar and Crassus (First Triumvirate)

55–56

Caesar’s subjugation of Gaul

55–54

Caesar’s invasion of Britain

53

Death of Crassus at Carrhae

52–51

Revolt of Vercingetorix

48

Pharsalus. Death of Pompey

44

Assassination of Julius Caesar

31

Battle of Actium

30

Deaths of Antony and Cleopatra

27

Octavian Princeps and Augustus

ad 9

Revolt of Arminius

14–37

Tiberius

14–17

Campaigns of Germanicus

31

Fall of Sejanus

37–41

Gaius Caligula

41–54

Claudius

43

Invasion and annexation of Southern Britain

54–68

Nero

58–63

Parthian War

59–60

Rebellion of Boudicca

66

Rebellion of the Jews

68–69

Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian

69

Revolt of Civilis

70

Destruction of Jerusalem. End of Jewish Rebellion

81–96

Domitian

85–89

Dacian Wars

96–98

Nerva

98–117

Trajan

114–117

Parthian War

114

Occupation of Armenia and Upper Mesopotamia

116

Annexation of Assyria and Lower Mesopotamia. Revolt in Mesopotamia

117–138

Hadrian

117

Abandonment of Assyria and Mesopotamia. Armenia a client kingdom

132–134

Revolt of Jews in the East

138–161

Antoninus Pius

161–180

Marcus Aurelius

161–169

Lucius Verus

161–166

Parthian War

177–192

Commodus

193

Pertinax

193

Didius Julianus

193–211

Septimius Severus

195–196

Invasion of Parthia

197–199

Parthian War renewed. Conquest of Upper Mesopotamia

211–217

Caracalla

214

Parthian War

217–218

Macrinus

218–222

Elagabalus

222–235

Severus Alexander

227

Establishment of Persian Sassanid Kingdom

230–233

War with Persia

235–238

Maximinus

238

Gordian I and Gordian II

238–244

Gordian III

243–249

Philip the Arab

249–251

Decius

249

Persecution of the Christians

251–253

Gallus and Volusianus

253

Aemilianus

253–260

Valerianus

253–268

Gallienus

258

Postumus establishes Roman Empire in Gaul

268–270

Claudius Gothicus

270

Quintillus

270–275

Aurelian

271

Revolt of Palmyra

275–276

Tacitus

276

Florian

276–282

Probus

282–283

Carus

283–285

Carinus

284–305

Diocletian

Abbreviations

The following abbreviations have been used throughout this book.

ADAJ

Annual Jordan Department of Antiquities

AE

L’Année épigraphique. Paris, Presses Universitaires

AHR

American Historical Review. Washington, DC, American Historical Association

AIV

Atti dell’Istituto Veneto di Scienza Lettere ed Arti. Classe di Scienze morali e Lettere, Venezia, Palazzo Loredan

AJA

American Journal of Archaeology. Boston, Archaeological Institute of America

AJAH

American Journal of Ancient History. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press

AJPh

American Journal of Philology. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press

AncW

Ancient World. Chicago, Ares

ANRW

Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt. Geschichte und Kultur Roms in Spiegel der neueren Forschung, Berlin, de Gruyter

AntCl

L’Antiquité classique. Louvain-la-Neuve

Arch Ael

Archaeologia Aeliana. Society of Antiquaries of Newcastleupon-Tyne

ASGP

Annali del Seminario Giuridico di Palermo. Palermo, Università

Athenaeum

Studi periodici de Letteratura e Storia dell’Antichità. Università di Pavia

AW

Antike Welt. Zürich

BABesch

Bulletin Antieke Beschaving, Leiden

BAR

British Archaeological Reports, Oxford

BCH

Bulletin de correspondence hellénique. Paris, de Boccard

BG

Julius Caesar, Battle for Gaul

BJ

Bonner Jahrbücher des Rheinischen Landesmuseums in Bonn und des Vereins von Altertumsfreunden im Rheinlande, Cologne, Böhlau

Boreas

Boreas. Münstersche Beiträge zur Archaeologie. Münster, Archaeologischen Seminar der Universität

BSA

Annual of the British School at Athens. London

BSAF

Bulletin de la Société Nationale des Antiquaires de France. Paris, Klincksieck

ByzZeit

Byzantinische Zeitschrift. Munich, Beck

CAH

Cambridge Ancient History, Cambridge University Press

CB

Classical Bulletin. St. Louis, Missouri, Department of Classical Languages at Saint Louis University

Chiron

Mitteilungen der Kommission für alte Geschichte und Epigraphik des Deutschen Archaeologischen Instituts. Munich, Beck

CJ

Classical Journal. Athens, Georgia, University of Georgia Press

ClAnt

Classical Antiquity. Berkeley, University of California Press

C&M

Classica et Mediaevalia. Révue danoise d’Histoire et de Philologie, Copenhagen, Gyldendal

CIL

Corpus inscriptionum latinarum

CP

Classical Philology. Chicago, University of Chicago Press

CQ

Classical Quarterly. Oxford University Press

CR

Classical Review. Oxford University Press

CW

The Classical World. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Duquesne University Press

DA

Dissertation abstracts. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, Michigan

DArch

Dialoghi di Archeologia. Rome

DHA

Dialogues d’histoire ancienne. Paris

DOP

Dumbarton Oaks Papers. New York

Eranos

Eranos. Acta Philologica Suecana. Uppsala, Eranos Förlag

Germania

Germanis. Anzeiger der Röm-Germ. Kommission des Deutschen Archaeologischen Instituts, Mainz, von Zabern

G&R

Greece and Rome. Oxford, Clarendon Press

GRBS

Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press

Gnomon

Kritische Zeitschrift für die gesamte klassische Altertumswissenschaft. Munich, Beck

HA

Aristotle, Historia animalium

Hermes

Zeitschrift für klassische Philologie. Wiesbaden, Steiner

HSCPh

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press

Historia

Historia. Révue d’histoire ancienne. Wiesbaden, Steiner

HN

Pliny the Elder, Natural History

ILS

Hermann Dessau, Inscriptiones latinae selectae

JARCE

Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt

JHS

Journal of Hellenic Studies. London

JRS

Journal of Roman Studies. London

Klio

Beiträge zur alten Geschichte. Berlin, Akademie Verlag

Latomus

Révue d’études latines. Brussels

LCM

Liverpool Classical Monthly. University of Liverpool Press

MAAR

Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome. Rome, American Academy

MEFR

Mélanges d’archéologie et d’histoire de l’école Française de Rome. Paris, de Boccard

Meta.

Ovid, The Metamorphoses

NYRB

New York Review of Books

OCD

Oxford Classical Dictionary

PACA

Proceedings of the African Classical Association. Harare, Zimbabwe

Phoenix

Journal of the Classical Association of Canada, Toronto, University of Toronto Press

PIR

Prosopographia imperii Romani. Ed. Bengt Thomasson, Goteborg, Radius, 1975

PP

La Parola del Passato. Rivista di Studi antichi, Napoli, Macchiaroli

P&P

Past and Present. A Journal of Historical Studies. Kendal, Wilson

PSAS

Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland

R-E

Pauly Wissowa, Real-Encyclopädie der klassischen Altertumswissenschaft. Stuttgart

REL

Révue des études latines, Paris, Les Belles Lettres

RhM

Rheinisches Museum. Frankfurt, Saverländer

RömMitt

Mitteilungen des deutschen Archaeologischen Instituts. Römische Abteilung

RSA

Rivista storica dell’Antichità. Bologna, Patron

SEHRE

Michael Rostovtzeff, Social and Economic History of the Roman Empire, Oxford University Press, 1967

SHA

Scriptores Historiae Augustae

Syria

Revue d’art oriental et d’archéologie. Paris, Geunther

TAPA

Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association

TCWAAS

Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmoreland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society

YCS

Yale Classical Studies. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press

ZPE

Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik. Bonn, Habelt

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