Courses:

I. Early Rome (Livy……)

• Phoenicians
• rex ("king")
• senate
• comitia centuriata
• familia
• Latins, Latium
• gens (pl. gentes)
• pater familias
• Sicily
• Etruscans(Etrusci=Tusci="Rasenna")
• The "7 Kings" (in Livy Book I)
• Aeneas
• Jupiter Optimus Maximus ("best & greatest")

II. The Roman Constitution

• patricians/ plebeians (patricii/ plebs)
• auspices
• dictator
• decemvirs
• pontifex maximus, pontiffs
• praetor
• censor
• Volsci
• Veii
• Gauls, Battle at the Allia River
• Samnites, 3 Samnite Wars
• imperium 
• tribune of the Plebs
• Plebeian Tribal Council (concilium plebis)
• Tribunes Licinius & Sextius (367 B.C.)
• consul
• quaestor
• aedile
• Municipia
• Latin League, Latin Allies
• Tarentum
• King Pyrrhus of Epirus

III. Roman Imperialism

• Saguntum
• First & Second Punic Wars
• King Hiero of Syracuse
• Hamilcar Barca
• Battle of Zama (202 B.C.)
• the Ptolemies
• Rhodes
• Philip V of Macedon
• Second Macedonian War
• Perseus
• Third Macedonian War
• Battle of Pydna (168 B.C.)
• Hannibal
• Mamertini
• Battle of Cannae (216 B.C.)
• P. Cornelius Scipio Africanus
• Sardinia
• Pergamon
• Fourth Macedonian War
• Third Punic War
• M. Porcius Cato the Elder
• provincia, "province," provincials
• L. Aemilius Paullus
• Scipio Aemilianus
• T. Quinctius Flamininus

IV. Age of the Gracchi, Sulla, Marius

• equestrians, equites
• Gaius Sempronius Gracchus
• populares
• Q. Metellus
• Italian ("Social") War
• latifundia
• Mithridates
• novus homo (a "new man": as Cato Sr., Marius, Cicero)
• Jugurtha
• M. Livius Drusus the Younger
• Gaius Marius
• Cimbri and Teutones
• L. Cornelius Sulla
• (Cornelius) Cinna
• Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus
• optimates ("best men")
• Battle of Arausio (105 B.C.)
• nobiles (nobles, aristocrats)

V. The Consequences of Empire, & First Triumvirate

• Catiline (L. Sergius Catilina)
• Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus
• Q. Sertorius
• L. Lucullus
• M. Licinius Crassus
• G. Verres
• First Triumvirate
• Ariovistus
• Stoicism
• Eunous
• M. Aemilius Lepidus
• M. Porcius Cato the Younger
• P. Clodius Pulcher
• Spartacus
• M. Tullius Cicero
• Judaea
• G. Julius Caesar
• Vercingetorix, Siege of Alesia
• Epicureans
• freedman (libertus )

VI. Caesar's Downfall, & Second Triumvirate

• Parthia
• River Rubicon
• Battle of Pharsalus (48 B.C.)
• Sextus Pompeius
• G. Cassius, M. Junius Brutus
• Ides of March, 44 B.C.
• Battle of Philippi, 42 B.C.
• Cleopatra
• M. Vipsanius Agrippa
• M. Antonius (Mark Antony)
• Battle of Munda (45 B.C.)
• Second Triumvirate
• Octavian (to become "Augustus")
• Battle of Actium, 31 B.C.

VII. Augustus

• Praetorian Guard
• Armenia
• Imperial Cult
• Vergil
• Livy (!)
• "Augustus"
• tribunicia potestas (tribunician power)
• princeps, principate
• Vigiles
• Parthia
• Horace
• Tiberius (= Tiberius Claudius Nero)
• M. Claudius Marcellus
• Gaius and Lucius Caesar

VIII. The Julio-Claudians

• TIBERIUS (= Tiberius Claudius Nero)
• Germanicus
• Sejanus
• VESPASIAN
• Agrippina the Younger
• CLAUDIUS
• Seneca the Younger
• Great Fire of Rome (64 A.D.)
• Jewish War (A.D. 66-70)
• TITUS
• GALBA
• OTHO
• VITELLIUS
• GAIUS (= CALIGULA)
• NERO
• "Golden House"
• Earliest Persecution of Christians
• Vindex
• DOMITIAN

IX. The Second Century A.D.

• NERVA
• HADRIAN
• Dacia, Dacians
• MARCUS AURELIUS
• TRAJAN
• ANTONINUS PIUS
• Alimenta

X. The Rise of Christianity

The Pagan Background:

• Bacchus, Bacchanalia
• Cybele (Magna Mater)
• Vestal Virgins
• Lupercalia
• Isis (& Osiris)

Early Christianity:

• Jesus
• Tertullian
• St. Paul
• Eusebius

XI. Third Century Crisis; Diocletian and Constantine; "Fall" (Transformation?) of the Roman Empire

• Commodus
• Septimius Severus
• Macrinus
• Severus Alexander
• Odenathus & Zenobia
• Curiales (Curial Class)
• Diocletian
• Constantine
• "Edict of Milan," 313 A.D.
• Constantinople
• Valentinian I & Valens
• Pertinax
• Caracalla
• Julia Domna
• Gallienus
• Goths
• Tetrarchy
• Donatus, Donatists
• Julian the Apostate
• Theodosius the Great
• Elagabalus
• Palmyra
• Aurelian
• Arian Heresy