I skipped over chapter 11 since it covered things I don’t really care to post about. 12 Rome Outside Rome  Pliny’s province In 109 BC, Pliny

10 Fourteen Emperors  What went wrong with Gaius? Tiberius took over seamlessly from Augustus but grew increasingly reclusive over the last decade of his life, spending

Chapter 8 was a discussion of Roman life at the time. Since it didn’t have much in the historical narrative that I’m trying to document,

7 From Empire to Emperors Cicero versus VerresIn 70 BC Cicero took on a high profile case against Gaius Verres, governor of Sicily. He was

6 New Politics DestructionThe destruction of Carthage in 146 BC was brutal on both sides even by ancient standards. The sack of Corinth a few

5 A Wider World Roman literature and roman territorial expansion went hand in hand. Rome had used writing for basic communication since its inception. But with

4 Rome’s Great Leap Forward Besides the two consuls, there were a series of positions below that: praetors and quaestors. The senate was a permanent