TTC - The History of Ancient Rome

Category: Lecture
Language: English
Keywords: Ancient Rome History ttc
Written by Garrett G. Fagan
Read by Garrett G. Fagan,
Format: MP3
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Unabridged

Professor Garrett G. Fagan draws on a wealth of primary and secondary sources, including recent historical and archaeological scholarship, to introduce the fascinating tale of Rome’s rise and decline. You learn about all the famous events and personalities:

From pre-Roman Italy through the long centuries of Republican and then Imperial rule, Professor Fagan interweaves narrative and analysis. Chronologically, the focus is on the years from 200 B.C.E. to 200 A.D., when Roman power was at its height.

48 Lectures
30 minutes / lecture

1 Introduction
2 The Sources
3 Pre-Roman Italy and the Etruscans
4 The Foundation of Rome
5 The Kings of Rome
6 Regal Society
7 The Beginnings of the Republic
8 The Struggle of the Orders
9 Roman Expansion in Italy
10 The Roman Confederation in Italy
11 The International Scene on the Eve of Roman Expansion
12 Carthage and the First Punic War
13 The Second Punic (or Hannibalic) War
14 Rome in the Eastern Mediterranean
15 Explaining the Rise of the Roman Empire
16 The Captured Conqueror”—Rome and Hellenism
17 Governing the Roman Republic, Part I—Senate and Magistrates
18 Governing the Roman Republic, Part II—Popular Assemblies and Provincial Administration
19 The Pressures of Empire
20 The Gracchi Brothers
21 Marius and Sulla
22 “The Royal Rule of Sulla”
23 Sulla’s Reforms Undone
24 Pompey and Crassus
25 The First Triumvirate
26 Pompey and Caesar
27 “The Domination of Caesar”
28 Social and Cultural Life in the Late Republic
29 Antony and Octavian
30 The Second Triumvirate
31 Octavian Emerges Supreme
32 The New Order of Augustus
33 The Imperial Succession
34 The Julio-Claudian Dynasty
35 The Emperor in the Roman World
36 The Third-Century Crisis
37 The Shape of Roman Society
38 Roman Slavery
39 The Family
40 Women in Roman Society
41 An Empire of Cities
42 Public Entertainment, Part I—The Roman Baths and Chariot Racing
43 Public Entertainment, Part II—Gladiatorial Games
44 Roman Paganism
45 The Rise of Christianity
46 The Restoration of Order
47 Constantine and the Late Empire
48 Thoughts on the “Fall” of the Roman Empire