TY - GEN AU - Fagan,Garrett G. ED - Teaching Company TI - The history of ancient Rome T2 - The Great courses SN - 1490690409 AV - LB 14.6 F151h 1999 U1 - 370 PY - 1999/// CY - Chantilly, Virginia PB - The Teaching Company KW - Education. KW - Teaching KW - Educación KW - Enseñanza KW - Roma KW - Historia KW - República, 510-30 a.C KW - Imperio, 30 a.C.-476 d.C KW - Civilización KW - Política y gobierno N1 - Course no. 340 The entire program consists of 48 lectures; Introduction -- The sources -- Pre-Roman Italy and the Etruscans -- The foundation of Rome -- The kings of Rome -- Regal society -- The beginnings of the Republic -- The struggle of the orders -- Roman expansion in Italy -- The Roman Confederation in Italy -- The international scene on the eve of Roman expansion -- Carthage and the First Punic War -- The Second Punic (or Hannibalic) War -- Rome in the Eastern Mediterranean -- Explaining the rise of the Roman empire -- "The Captured Conqueror": Rome and Hellenism -- Governing the Republic, part I -- Governing the Republic, part II -- The pressures of Empire -- The Gracchi brothers -- Marius and Sulla -- "The Royal Rule of Sulla" -- Sulla's reforms undone -- Pompey and Crassus -- The first Triumvirate -- Pompey and Caesar -- "The Domination of Caesar" -- Social and cultural life in the late Republic -- Antony and Octavian -- The second Triumvirate -- Octavian emerges supreme -- The new order of Augustus -- The imperial succession -- The Julio-Claudian dynasty -- The emperor in the Roman world -- The third-century crisis -- The shape of Roman society -- Roman slavery -- The family -- Women in Roman society -- An empire of cities -- Public entertainment I: the Roman baths and chariot racing -- Public entertainment II: gladiatorial games -- Roman paganism -- The rise of Christianity -- The restoration of order -- Constantine and the late Empire -- Thoughts on the "Fall" of the Roman Empire N2 - Forty-eight lectures on the history of ancient Rome beginning with pre-Roman Italy and ending with the fall of Rome ER -