This Project Gutenberg eBook was prepared by David Ceponis
The History of Rome by Theodor Mommsen.
Translated by William Purdie Dickson
Volumes 1-5
BOOK I: The Period Anterior to the Abolition of the Monarchy
Chapter II. The Earliest Migrations into Italy
Chapter III. The Settlements of the Latins
Chapter IV. The Beginnings of Rome
Chapter V. The Original Constitution of Rome
Chapter VI. The Non-Burgesses and the Reformed Constitution
Chapter VII. The Hegemony of Rome in Latium
Chapter VIII. The Umbro-Sabellian Stocks--Beginnings of the Samnites
Chapter X. The Hellenes in Italy--Maritime Supremacy of the Tuscans and Carthaginians
Chapter XIII. Agriculture, Trade, and Commerce
Chapter XIV. Measuring and Writing
BOOK II: From the Abolition of the Monarchy in Rome to the Union of Italy
Chapter I. Change of the Constitution--Limitation of the Power of the Magistrate
Chapter II. The Tribunate of the Plebs and the Decemvirate
Chapter III. The Equalization of the Orders, and the New Aristocracy
Chapter IV. Fall of the Etruscan Power--the Celts
Chapter V. Subjugation of the Latins and Campanians by Rome
Chapter VI. Struggle of the Italians against Rome
Chapter VII. Struggle Between Pyrrhus and Rome, and Union of Italy
Chapter VIII. Law--Religion--Military System--Economic Condition--Nationality
BOOK III: From the Union of Italy to the Subjugation of Carthage and the Greek States
Chapter II. The War between Rome and Carthage Concerning Sicily
Chapter III. The Extension of Italy to Its Natural Boundaries
Chapter IV. Hamilcar and Hannibal
Chapter V. The War under Hannibal to the Battle of Cannae
Chapter VI. The War under Hannibal from Cannae to Zama
Chapter VII. The West from the Peace of Hannibal to the Close of the Third Period
Chapter VIII. The Eastern States and the Second Macedonian War
Chapter IX. The War with Antiochus of Asia
Chapter X. The Third Macedonian War
Chapter XI. The Government and the Governed
Chapter XII. The Management of Land and of Capital
Chapter XIII. Faith and Manners
Chapter XIV. Literature and Art
BOOK IV: The Revolution
Chapter I. The Subject Countries Down to the Times of the Gracchi
Chapter II. The Reform Movement and Tiberius Gracchus
Chapter III. The Revolution and Gaius Gracchus
Chapter IV. The Rule of the Restoration
Chapter V. The Peoples of the North
Chapter VI. The Attempt of Marius at Revolution and the Attempt of Drusus at Reform
Chapter VII. The Revolt of the Italian Subjects, and the Sulpician Revolution
Chapter VIII. The East and King Mithradates
Chapter X. The Sullan Constitution
Chapter XI. The Commonwealth and Its Economy
Chapter XII. Nationality, Religion, and Education
Chapter XIII. Literature and Art
BOOK V: The Establishment of the Military Monarchy
Chapter I. Marcus Lepidus and Quintus Sertorius
Chapter II. Rule of the Sullan Restoration
Chapter III. The Fall of the Oligarchy and the Rule of Pompeius
Chapter IV. Pompeius and the East
Chapter V. The Struggle of Parties during the Absence of Pompeius
Chapter VI. Retirement of Pompeius and Coalition of the Pretenders
Chapter VII. The Subjugation of the West
Chapter VIII. The Joint Rule of Pompeius and Caesar
Chapter IX. Death of Crassus--Rupture between the Joint Rulers
Chapter X. Brundisium, Ilerda, Pharsalus, and Thapsus
Chapter XI. The Old Republic and the New Monarchy
Chapter XII. Religion, Culture, Literature, and Art
Preparer's Note
This work contains many literal citations of and references to foreign words, sounds, and alphabetic symbols drawn from many languages, including Gothic and Phoenician, but chiefly Latin and Greek. This English Gutenberg edition, constrained to the characters of 7-bit ASCII code, adopts the following orthographic conventions:
1) Except for Greek, all literally cited non-English words that do not refer to texts cited as academic references, words that in the source manuscript appear italicized, are rendered with a single preceding, and a single following dash; thus, -xxxx-.
2) Greek words, first transliterated into Roman alphabetic equivalents, are rendered with a preceding and a following double-dash; thus, --xxxx--. Note that in some cases the root word itself is a compound form such as xxx-xxxx, and is rendered as --xxx-xxx--
3) Simple unideographic references to vocalic sounds, single letters, or alphabeic dipthongs; and prefixes, suffixes, and syllabic references are represented by a single preceding dash; thus, -x, or -xxx.
4) (Especially for the complex discussion of alphabetic evolution in Ch. XIV: Measuring and Writing). Ideographic references, meaning pointers to the form of representation itself rather than to its content, are represented as -"id:xxxx"-. "id:" stands for "ideograph", and indicates that the reader should form a picture based on the following "xxxx"; which may be a single symbol, a word, or an attempt at a picture composed of ASCII characters. E. g. --"id:GAMMA gamma"-- indicates an uppercase Greek gamma-form followed by the form in lowercase. Some such exotic parsing as this is necessary to explain alphabetic development because a single symbol may have been used for a number of sounds in a number of languages, or even for a number of sounds in the same language at different times. Thus, -"id:GAMMA gamma" might very well refer to a Phoenician construct that in appearance resembles the form that eventually stabilized as an uppercase Greek "gamma" juxtaposed to one of lowercase. Also, a construct such as --"id:E" indicates a symbol that with ASCII resembles most closely a Roman uppercase "E", but, in fact, is actually drawn more crudely.
5) Dr. Mommsen has given his dates in terms of Roman usage, A.U.C.; that is, from the founding of Rome, conventionally taken to be 753 B. C. The preparer of this document has appended to the end of this combined text (Books I-V) a table of conversion between the two systems.