76
Note: Boldface page numbers indicate
illustrations.
Aeneas, 25, 27
Aeneid
(Virgil), 25, 35
Age of the Soldier-Emperors, the,
20
Ambrose of Milan, 57–58
Ammianus Marcellinus, 62
Anarchy, the, 20, 23
Ancient Rome
calculating date of founding of,
29
early communities in, 12, 14
early village in,
13
expansion of,
17
founding myth of, 25–27
impact of Gallic invasion on, 11
important events in history of,
6–7
Pax Romana era, 18–19, 20
periods in history of, 12–13
See also
Empire; Monarchy;
Republic
Ancus Marcius, 27
Antoninus Pius, 18–19
Antony, Mark.
See
Marcus Antonius
Arian heresy, 56
Augustulus, Romulus, 23, 68,
69
Augustus (Octavian), 18, 45–47
Aurelian, 20, 61
Aurelius, Marcus.
See
Marcus
Aurelius
barbarian invasions, 60–62
Barrow, R.H., 23
BCE-CE system, 29
Boak, Arthur, 9, 20, 67
Brutus, Lucius Junius, 30
Byzantine Empire, 23, 59
Caesar, Gaius Julius, 18, 43–45,
44
Cannae, battle of (216 BCE), 19
Carthage, 16,
17
, 19
Cassius, Dio, 46, 47
censors,
34
, 34–35
Century of Crisis, the, 20
chariot racing,
52
Christianity/Christians, 22, 23, 48
becomes official religion of
Roman Empire, 49, 57–58
fall of western Empire and, 60
rise of, 50
suspicion/persecution of, 51–54
Cicero, 32
Claudius II (Claudius Gothicus),
20, 61
Cleopatra, 45
Collatinus, Lucius Tarquinius, 30
Constantine I, 22–23,
55
, 55–57
Constantinople, 57
Constantius, 55, 57
Cornell, T.J., 29
Council of Nicaea (325), 56
Crassus, Marcus, 40–43, 44
crucifixion,
49
Dark Day of Allia, 8, 11
The Decline and Fall of the Roman
Empire
(Gibbon), 60
Diocletian, 21, 61, 63
Dudley, Donald R., 61
Edict of Milan, 56
Empire (30 BCE–476 CE), 13
Anarchy period, 20
division of, 23
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