OF THE

MENTAL GROWTH OF MANKIND

IN

ANCIENT TIMES

BY

JOHN S. HITTELL

VOLUME IV.

ROME AND EARLY CHRISTIANITY

NEW YORK

HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY

1893

CONTENTS OF VOLUME IV.

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CHAPTER XXVIII. LEGENDARY ROME.

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421. Rome in Culture.......

422. Site ......

423. Legendary Period.

424. Literary Poverty

425. Roman Aristocracy...

426. Clients.......

427. Senate...

428. Consuls..

429. Centuries..

430. Roman Army......

431. The Legion....

432. Main Features..

433. Sacred Mount.

434. Tribunes.

435. Agrarianism

436. Tribal Assembly.

437. XII Tables......

438. Rude Justice......

439. Formulas.......

440. Decemvirs

441. Valerian Laws..

442. Censors, etc

443. Licinius......

444. Plebeian Priests....

445. Veii, etc........

446. Hortensius....

447. Nobles United............

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CHAPTER XXIX. HISTORICAL REPUBLIC.

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448. Mythical Virtue.........

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449. Pyrrhus......

450. Hannibal..

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451. Cannæ...

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452. Zama.....

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453. After Zama

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454. Macedon...

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455. Carthage Destroyed.......

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456. Pergamus..

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457. T. Gracchus

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458. C. Gracchus....

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459. Marius...

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460. The Allies......

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461. Social War.

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462. Sulla .....

463. Sulla's Laws..

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464. Pompey

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465. Cæsar

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466. Anarchy

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467. Success..

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468. Ruin

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469. Perfidy.

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470. Plunder....

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471. Verres...

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472. Roscius....

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473. Slave Wars....

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474. Pharsalia

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475. Cæsar's Laws.

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CHAPTER XXX. PAGAN EMPIRE.

476. Augustus......

477. Policy of Augustus

478. Prætorian Law.......

479. Imperial Law.......

480. Roman Law Books

481. Gaius.....

482. Later Emperors,

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483. Cities under Rome

484. Provinces......

485. End of Pagan Rome.......

CHAPTER XXXI. ROMAN RELIGION.

486. Greek Analogies...

487. Jupiter...

488. Pontiffs..

489. Augurs......

490. Roman Worship.

491. New Faiths.......

492. Roman Funerals...

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