THE FLAVIAN DYNASTY

THE CAMBRIDGE' HISTORY OF ROME

THE IMPERIAL PEACE

AD 70-192

EDITED BY

S. A. COOK

F. E. ADCOCK

M. P. CHARLESWORTH

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912)
The Triumph of Titus

CHAPTER I

THE FLAVIAN DYNASTY

By M. P. CHARLESWORH

I-THE NEW EMPEROR

II.ROME AND THE EMPEROR

III. REORGANIZATION: FINANCIAL AND PROVINCIAL

IV-TITUS

V. DOMITIAN: THE COURT AND THE ARISTOCRACY

VI. ADMINISTRATION AND LEGISLATION

CHAPTER II

THE PEOPLES OF NORTHERN EUROPE: THE GETAE AND DACIANS

By G. EKHOLM

I.THE EARLIEST AGES

II.THE ENTRANCE INTO HISTORY OF THE NORTHERN PEOPLES

III. THE "FREE" GERMANI OF THE CONTINENT

IV. SCANDINAVIA AND THE EAST BALTIC

V. THE GERMANIA AND THE CIVILIZATION OF THE GERMANI

VI.THE GETAE AND THE DACIANS (by Professor Alfoldi)

VII. DACIAN CIVILIZATION (by Professor Alfoldi)

CHAPTER III

THE SARMATAE AND PARTHIANS

By M. ROSTOVTZEFF

I. SARMATIAN ORIGINS AND EXTERNAL HISTORY

II. SARMATIAN SOCIETY, WARFARE AND ART

III. PARTHIA: FOREIGN POLICY

IV. PARTHIA: CONSTITUTION AND ADMINISTRATION

V. PARTHIA: ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS

VI. PARTHIA: RELIGION, LITERATURE, ART

CHAPTER IV

FLAVIAN WARS AND FRONTIERS

By RONALD SYME

I. THE ARMY

II. THE EASTERN FRONTIER

III. AFRICA

IV. CONQUEST IN BRITAIN

V. THE ADVANCE IN GERMANY

VI.THE WAR AGAINST THE CHATTI

VII.THE DACIAN WAR

VIII.THE CIVIL WAR

IX.THE FLAVIAN ACHIEVEMENT

CHAPTER V

NERVA AND TRAJAN

By R. P. LONGDEN

I. NERVA

II.TRAJAN : PRINCEPS AND SENATUS

III. PUBLIC WORKS, FINANCE, SOCIAL POLICY

IV. IMPERIAL ADMINISTRATION .

CHAPTER VI

THE WARS OF TRAJAN

By P. P. LONGDEN

I. THE DANUBE

II. TRAJAN IN THE EAST

CHAPTER VII

THE RISE OF CHRISTIANITY

By B. H. STREETER

I. INTRODUCTION

II. ROMAN AND JEWISH EVIDENCE

III. CHRISTIAN EVIDENCE

IV. THE FIRE FROM HEAVEN

V. JEW AND GENTILE

VI. VARIETIES OF EXPERIENCE AND BELIEF

VII. PROPHET, PRESBYTER AND BISHOP

CHAPTER VIII

HADRIAN

By WILHELM WEBER

I. THE PROBLEM OF THE EMPIRE

II. THE ACCESSION OF HADRIAN

III. THE POSITION OF HADRIAN

IV. THE FRONTIERS AND THE EMPIRE

V. LEGAL AND SOCIAL POLICY. THE JOURNEYS

CHAPTER IX

THE ANTONINES

By WILHELM WEBER

I. ANTONINUS PIUS

II. MARCUS' ACCESSION: THE TWO EMPERORS

III. THE PARTHIAN WAR

IV.THE WAR IN GERMANY

V. THE EMPEROR AND THE AGE

VI. INTERNAL POLICY

VII. THE ACCESSION AND REIGN OF COMMODUS

VIII. THE POSITION OF COMMODUS AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE

CHAPTER X

THE PRINCIPATE AND THE ADMINISTRATION

Hugh Last

I. THE ARMY AND THE STATE

II. THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE PRINCIPATE

III. THE PRINCEPS AND THE CONSTITUTION

IV. THE IMPERIAL HOUSE AND THE TRANSMISSIOMN OF THE PRINCIPATE

V. PRINCEPS AND SENATE : THE CENSORSHIP

VI. SENATE AND MAGISTRATES

VII. THE DEVELOPMENTOF THE CIVIL SERVICE

CHAPTER XI

ROME AND THE EMPIRE

By Hugh Last

CHAPTER XII

THE LATIN WEST: AFRICA, SPAIN AND GAUL

By E. Albertini

CHAPTER XIII

THE LATIN WEST: BRITAIN, ROMAN GERMANY,

THE DANUBE LANDS

By R. G. Collingwood & Professor Alfoldi

CHAPTER XIV

THE GREEK PROVINCES

By J. Keil

I. Introduction

II. Achaea

III. Epirus and Macedonia

IV. Thrace and the Black Sea Pentapolis

V. PONTUS ET BITHYNIA

VI. Asia

VII. Lycia et Pamphylia

VIII. Galatia

IX. Cilicia

CHAPTER XV

THE FRONTIER PROVINCES OF THE EAST

Franz Cumont

I. Cappadocia. Lesser Armenia. Commagene

II. Syria, Arabia and the Empire

III. Industry and trade

IV. Syrian culture

CHAPTER XVI

EGYPT, CRETE AND CYRENAICA

H. Idris Bell

I. Egypt

II. The province of Crete and Cyrenaica

III. Crete

IV. Cyrenaica

CHAPTER XVII

GREEK LITERATURE, PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENCE

F. H. Sandbach

I. Poetry by Dr Bell

II. Atticism and the second Sophistic movement by Professor Romanelli

III. Philosophy

IV. Plutarch by Professor Romanelli

V. Science

VI. Character of the age

CHAPTER XVIII

LATIN LITERATURE OF THE SILVER AGE

By E. E. Sikes

I. General characteristics

II. Tragedy

III. LUCAN (A.D. 39-65) AND OTHER EPIC POETS

IV. Persius, Juvenal, Martial

V. Prose Satire and Romance

VI. Seneca

VII. Pliny the Elder

VIII. Quintilian

IX. Pliny the Younger

X. Tacitus

XI. C. Suetonius Tranquillus

CHAPTER XIX

SOCIAL LIFE IN ROME AND ITALY

By J. Wight Duff

I. Characteristics and changes

II. The social grades

III. Women

IV. Slaves and freedmen

V. Economic factors

VI. External conditions of life

VII. Moral, intellectual and religious features

CHAPTER XX

ART FROM NERO TO THE ANTONINES

By G. Rodenwaldt

I. Nero to Trajan

II. Hadrian to Commodus: Rome and the Latin West

III. Hadrian to Commodus: the Greek East

IV. Art on the frontiers of the Empire

CHAPTER XXI

CLASSICAL ROMAN LAW

W. W. Buckland

I. Characteristics of the period

II. Sources of law

III. The Senate and the emperor

IV. The Jurists

V. The private law

VI. The Criminal law

CONCLUSION

APPENDIX ON SOURCES

NOTES:

1. The Chronology of the Parthian war of Trajan

2. The Roman occupation of Palmyrene

3. Stations on the Euphrates