Roman Republic

• Etruscans• Carthage• Senate• Patricians• Plebeians• Consuls• Censors• Law of the 12 Tables

450 BCE

• Tribunes• Punic War (264-146

B.C.E.)• Hannibal

• Proconsuls• Gracchi Brothers• Sulla• Julius Caesar (d. 44

BCE)

• First Triumvirate: Crassus- Pompey- Julius Caesar

• Second Triumvirate: Octavian (Augustus Caesar)- Lepidus- Mark Antony

Roman Empire

• Cleopatra • Octavian (Augustus Caesar) “Princeps”

• Principate 27 BCE-14 CE• Pax Romana• Livy• Tiberius• Villa• Virgil 70-19 BCE• The Aeneid• Marcus Aurelius 161-180

CE• The Meditations

Christianity/Fall of Rome• Commodus r. 180-

193• “Barracks Emperors”• Praetorian Guard• Diocletian (r. 294-

305)

• Tetrarchy• Constantine 313-337• Constantinople

• Jesus• Saul of Tarsus (Paul)

6-67 CE• Second Diaspora• Franks• Saxons• Angles• Vandals• Visigoths• Ostrogoths

• Barbarian Invasions:

Byzantine Empire 400-788

• Justinian (ruled 400-788)

• Byzantine Empire (around 550):

• Corpus Juris (533)• Procopius (Secret

History)• “Greek Fire”

• The “Justinian Plague”

• Constantinople (Istanbul)

• Hagia Sophia

Theodora

Classical Life

• Polis• “The silk Road to

China”

• Gracchi Brothers• Misogyny• Athena• Aphrodite• Patria Potestas• Lex Juliana 18 BCE• Galley Slaves