Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: List of Maps Foreword to the Routledge Classics Edition Preface to first edition Preface to second edition Preface to third edition Preface to fourth edition Introduction Part 1 Rome and Italy 1. The Land and Its Peoples 2. Regal Rome 3. The New Republic and the Struggle of the Orders 4. The Roman Republic and Its Neighbours 5. The Union of The Orders and The Constitution 6. Rome's Conquest and Organization of Italy Part 2 Rome and Carthage 7. The First Struggle 8. The Entr'acte 9. Hannibal's Offensive and Rome's Defensive 10. Scipio and Rome's Offensive Part 3 Rome and the Mediterranean 11. Rome and Greece 12. Rome and Antiochus 13. Rome and the Eastern Mediterranean 14. Rome, Italy and the Western Mediterranean 15. Roman Policy and the Government Part 4 Roman Life and Culture 16. Economic and Social Organization 17. Literature and Art 18. Roman Religion 19. Sources and Authorities Chronological Table Select Bibliography Abbreviations Notes Index