The Roman World


 

Time Lines


 

The Athenian City State

 

Socrates

 

Plato

 

Aristotle

 

Aristotle Tutoring Alexander


 

Precursor - Alexander's Empire


 

Founding Myth


 

The Roman Republic

Republican Couple

 

Republican Family

 

Marius                                                                                                                                                          Sulla                  

 

The Gracchus Brothers

 

 

Political Structure

 

Images of the Roman Forum, Center of Republican Government

 

Cornelia and Her Sons, the Gracchus Brothers

 

Tiberius Gracchus Elected Tribune of the People

 

Assassination of the Gracchus Brothers and Beginning of the Death of the Republic

 


 

Empire

Pompey

 

Julius Ceasar

 

Marcus Brutus, Leader in the Plot to Assassinate the Emperor, Julius Caesar and Restore the Republic

 

Assassination of Ceasar

 

Mark Antony and Cleopatra

 

Augustus

 

Titus

 

Caligula

 

Nero


 

Army


 

Expansion


Class Struggles

 


 

Spartacus Rebellion


 

Material and Literary Culture


 

The Fall of Rome


 

Stoics

Zeno

 

Epictetus

 

Marcus Aurelius

 

Cicero

 

Seneca


 

Epicureans

 

Leucippus

 

Democritus

 

 

 

Epicurus

 

Epicurus-Metrodorus Herm

 

Lucretius