Classics: Rome

L'Année Philologique

Subject Headings:

• Religion and law -- Rome.
• Religion and state -- Rome.
• Ecclesiastical law -- Rome.
• Priests -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Rome.
• Rome -- Religion.
• Religion and culture -- Rome.
• Rome -- Religious life and customs.

Latium & Campania

Lucania

Northern Italy

Southern Italy

Rome & surroundings, 3rd c BCE

Carthage, port       Carthage, street map     Carthage, siege

Model of Ancient Rome

Subject Headings:

• Social classes -- Rome.
• Middle class -- Rome.
• Property -- Rome.
• Rome -- Politics and government.
• Emperors -- Rome.
• Families -- Rome.
• Clothing and dress -- Rome.
• Sexual ethics -- Rome.
• Sex customs -- Rome.
• Rome -- Moral conditions.
• Rome -- Geography
• Geopolitics -- Eurasia
• Travel in Literature

Subject Headings:

• Military history, Ancient.
• Rome -- History, Military.
• Rome -- Army.
• Military art and science -- Rome -- History.
• Rome -- History, Military -- 265 B.C.-30 B.C -- Sources
• Soldiers -- Rome.
• Rome -- Boundaries.
• Rome -- Boundaries -- Social aspects.

Subject Headings:

• Architecture -- Rome.
• Architecture, Classical -- Rome.
• Architecture and society -- Rome -- History.
• Death -- Social aspects -- Rome -- History.
• Memory -- Social aspects -- Rome -- History.
• Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Rome -- History.
• Latin literature -- History and criticism.
• Rome -- Social life and customs.
• Rome -- Antiquities.
• Statues -- Rome.
• Sculpture, Roman.
• Street life -- Rome -- History.
• Technology -- Rome -- History.
• Public spaces -- Rome -- History.
• Cities and towns -- Rome -- History.

Subject Headings:

• Slavery -- Rome.
• Slavery -- Rome -- History.
• Slave insurrections -- Rome.
• Slave trade -- Rome -- History.
• Social structure -- Rome.
• Rome -- Social conditions.
• Rome -- Economic conditions.
• Slavery in literature.

Subject Headings:

• Women and religion -- Rome.
• Women -- Rome.
• Rome -- Social life and customs.
• Women -- History -- To 500.
• Latin poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
• Women -- Rome -- Intellectual life.
• Women and literature -- Rome.
• Sex -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.
• Sex role -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.

• 753 BCE - Founding of Rome by Romulus
• 753-715 BCE - Reign of Romulus
• 715-673 BCE - Reign of Numa Pompilius
• 534-510 BCE - Reign of the last king of Rome, Tarquinius Superbus
• 509 BCE - Expulsion of Tarquinius Superbus / Beginning of Republic
• 449 BCE - Decemviri publish the Twelve Tables of Roman Law
• 445 BCE - Lex Canuleia- Marriage is allowed between patricians and plebeians.
• 390 BCE - Sack of Rome by Gauls
• 367 BCE - Office of Praetor is established
• 342 BCE - Lex Genucia- No man may hold the same office before 10 years have passed since last election
• 312 BCE - Construction begins on Via Appia, and Aqua Appia (first Roman aqueduct)
• 300 BCE - Lex Ogulnia - Plebeians were permitted to become priests.
• 287 BCE - Lex Hortensia- Made laws passed by Plebeian Council applicable to all citizens / Birth of Archimedes
• 280 BCE - Pyrrhic War
• 264-241 BCE - First Punic War; Sicily become first Roman Province
• 254 BCE - Birth of Plautus
• 218-201 BCE - Second Punic War
• 216 BCE - Battle of Cannae: Hannibal defeats Roman forces
• 214-205 BCE - First Macedonian War
• 202 BCE - Battle of Zama: Scipio Africanus defeats Hannibal
• 202-196 BCE - Second Macedonian War
• 171-168 BCE - Third Macedonian War
• 146 BCE - Destruction of Carthage
• 133 BCE - Tribune Tiberius Gracchus secures agragian reform, subsequently murdered
• 107 BCE - Marian Reforms of the Roman Legions
• 88 BCE - Sulla's first civil war- first time Roman legions crossed the pomerium
• 73-71 BCE - Servile War led by Spartacu
• 67 BCE - Lex Gabinia passes, giving Pompey unprecedented military power against pirates
• 60 BCE - Formation of First Triumvirate, informal alliance between Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus
• 54-53 BCE - Crassus's campaign against Parthians is unsuccessful, resulting in his death
• 49 BCE - Caesar crosses Rubicon, beginning Second Civil War against Pompey and the Optimates
• 48 BCE - Pompey assassinated in Egypt
• 45 BCE - Caesar named perpetual dictator of Rome
• 44 BCE - Caesar assassinated on Ides of March, conspiracy led by Brutus and Cassius
• 44-42 BCE - Third Civil War between Caesar's assassins and his heirs; Octavian and Antony
• 43 BCE - Formation of Second Triumvirate; formal alliance between Octavian, Mark Antony, and Marcus Lepidus
• 31 BCE - Battle of Actium: Octavian defeats Mark Antony and Cleopatra
• 29 BCE - Virgil begins writing The Aeneid
• 27 BCE - Octavian named Augustus Caesar - sole ruler of Rome / End of Roman Republic - Beginning of Roman Empire
• 8 CE - Ovid first publishes his Metamorphoses
• 9 CE - Battle at Teutoburg Forest
• 14 CE - Augustus Caesar dies
• 43 CE - Invasion of Britain under Emperor Claudius
• 64 CE - Great Fire of Rome
• 70 CE - Sack of Jerusalem
• 79 CE - Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius at Pompeii
• 80 CE - Inauguration of the "Colosseum"
• 122 CE - Construction of Hadrian's Wall begins
• 306-337 CE - The Reign of Constantine
• 324 CE - Constantine takes the small city of Byzantium as his capital.
• 330 CE - Byzantium is rechristened Constantinople on May 11.
• 397-400 CE - Augustine publishes his autobiographies, The Confessiones.
• 410 CE - Sack of Rome by Alaric I