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THE HISTORIANS’ HISTORY OF THE WORLD

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                             THE HISTORIANS’
                                 HISTORY
                              OF THE WORLD

    A comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations
   as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages:
    edited, with the assistance of a distinguished board of advisers
                          and contributors, by

                       HENRY SMITH WILLIAMS, LL.D.

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                         IN TWENTY-FIVE VOLUMES

                    VOLUME VI--THE EARLY ROMAN EMPIRE

                           The Outlook Company
                                New York

                         The History Association
                                 London

                                  1904

                            COPYRIGHT, 1904,
                        BY HENRY SMITH WILLIAMS.

                         _All rights reserved._

                       Press of J. J. Little & Co.
                          Astor Place, New York




Contributors, and Editorial Revisers.


  Prof. Adolf Erman, University of Berlin.
  Prof. Joseph Halévy, College of France.
  Prof. Thomas K. Cheyne, Oxford University.
  Prof. Andrew C. McLaughlin, University of Michigan.
  Prof. David H. Müller, University of Vienna.
  Prof. Alfred Rambaud, University of Paris.

  Prof. Eduard Meyer, University of Berlin.
  Dr. James T. Shotwell, Columbia University.
  Prof. Theodor Nöldeke, University of Strasburg.
  Prof. Albert B. Hart, Harvard University.
  Dr. Paul Brönnle, Royal Asiatic Society.
  Dr. James Gairdner, C.B., London.

  Prof. Ulrich von Wilamowitz Möllendorff, University of Berlin.
  Prof. H. Marnali, University of Budapest.
  Dr. G. W. Botsford, Columbia University.
  Prof. Julius Wellhausen, University of Göttingen.
  Prof. Franz R. von Krones, University of Graz.
  Prof. Wilhelm Soltau, Zabern University.

  Prof. R. W. Rogers, Drew Theological Seminary.
  Prof. A. Vambéry, University of Budapest.
  Prof. Otto Hirschfeld, University of Berlin.
  Baron Bernardo di San Severino Quaranta, London.
  Prof. F. York Powell, Oxford University.
  Dr. John P. Peters, New York.

  Dr. S. Rappoport, School of Oriental Languages, Paris.
  Prof. Hermann Diels, University of Berlin.
  Prof. C. W. C. Oman, Oxford University.
  Prof. I. Goldziher, University of Vienna.
  Prof. E. C. Fleming, University of West Virginia.
  Prof. R. Koser, University of Berlin.




CONTENTS


                                VOLUME VI

                         THE EARLY ROMAN EMPIRE

                                                                      PAGE

  THE EARLY ROMAN EMPIRE: A SKETCH, by Dr. Otto Hirschfeld               1

                              INTRODUCTION

  THE SCOPE, THE SOURCES AND THE CHRONOLOGY OF THE HISTORY OF IMPERIAL
  ROME                                                                  15

                              CHAPTER XXIX

  THE EMPIRE AND THE PROVINCES (15 B.C.-14 A.D.)                        25

    Augustus makes Egypt his private province, 43. Administration
    of the provinces, 47. Army and navy under Augustus, 49.

                               CHAPTER XXX

  THE GERMAN PEOPLE AND THE EMPIRE (16 B.C.-19 A.D.)                    56

    The German War of Independence against Rome, 59. The battle
    of Teutoburg Forest, 64. The campaigns of Germanicus, 69.
    Victories of Germanicus, 71. Gruesome relics in Teutoburg
    Forest, 72. The return march, 72. Battling with Arminius, 74.
    Germanicus recalled to Rome, 76. End of Marboduus and Arminius,
    76.

                              CHAPTER XXXI

  THE AGE OF AUGUSTUS: ASPECTS OF ITS CIVILISATION (30 B.C.-14 A.D.)    78

    Empire is peace, 78. Comparison between Augustus and Napoleon
    III, 80. The Roman Empire compared with modern England, 84. The
    Roman constitution, 86. Augustus named imperator for life, 87.
    The imperator named Princeps Senatus and Pontifex Maximus, 88.
    Tightening the reins of power, 90. Panem et Circenses: Food
    and games, 91. Pauperising the masses, 92. Games: Gladiatorial
    contests, 94. Races and theatricals, 96. Novum seculum: The
    new birth for Rome, 97. Literature of the Golden Age, 101.
    Merivale’s estimate of Livy, 107