VOLUME VI

THE EARLY ROMAN EMPIRE

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Prof. Adolf Erman, University of Berlin.

Prof. Joseph Halévy, College of France.

Prof. Thomas K. Cheyne, Oxford University.

Prof. Andrew C. McLaughlin, University of Chicago.
Prof. David H. Müller, University of Vienna.
Prof. Alfred Rambaud, University of Paris.
Capt. F. Brinkley, Tokio.

Prof. Eduard Meyer, University of Berlin.

Dr. James T. Shotwell, Columbia University.

Prof. Theodor Nöldeke, University of Strasburg.
Prof. Albert B. Hart, Harvard University.

Dr. Paul Brönnle, Royal Asiatic Society.
Dr. James Gairdner, C.B., London.

Prof. Ulrich von Wilamowitz Möllendorff, University of Berlin.
Prof. H. Marczali, University of Budapest.

Dr. G. W. Botsford, Columbia University.

Prof. Julius Wellhausen, University of Göttingen.
Prof. Franz R. von Krones, University of Graz.
Prof. Wilhelm Soltau, Zabern University.

Prof. R. W. Rogers, Drew Theological Seminary.
Prof. A. Vambéry, University of Budapest.
Prof. Otto Hirschfeld, University of Berlin.
Dr. Frederick Robertson Jones, Bryn Mawr College.
Baron Bernardo di San Severino Quaranta, London.
Dr. John P. Peters, New York.

Prof. Adolph Harnack, University of Berlin.

Dr. A. S. Rappoport, School of Oriental Languages, Paris.
Prof. Hermann Diels, University of Berlin.

Prof. C. W. C. Oman, Oxford University.

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Prof. W. L. Fleming, Louisiana State University.
Prof. I. Goldziher, University of Budapest.

Prof. R. Koser, University of Berlin.

CONTENTS

VOLUME VI

THE EARLY ROMAN EMPIRE

THE EARLY ROMAN EMPIRE: A SKETCH, by Dr. Otto Hirschfeld

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. 1

INTRODUCTION

THE SCOPE, THE SOURCES AND THE CHRONOLOGY OF THE HISTORY OF IMPERIAL

THE GERMAN PEOPLE AND THE EMPIRE (16 B.C.-19 A.D.)

. 56

The German War of Independence against Rome, 59. The battle of Teutoburg

Forest, 64. The campaigns of Germanicus, 69. Victories of Germanicus, 71. Grue-

some relics in Teutoburg Forest, 72. The return march, 72. Battling with Arminius,

74. Germanicus recalled to Rome, 76. End of Marboduus and Arminius, 76.

CHAPTER XXXI

THE AGE OF AUGUSTUS: ASPECTS OF ITS CIVILISATION (30 B.C.-14 A.D.) 78

Empire is peace, 78. Comparison between Augustus and Napoleon III, 80.

The Roman Empire compared with modern England, 84. The Roman constitution,

86. Augustus named imperator for life, 87. The imperator named Princeps Senatus

and Pontifex Maximus, 88. Tightening the reins of power, 90. Panem et Circenses:

Food and games, 91. Pauperising the masses, 92. Games: Gladiatorial contests,

94. Races and theatricals, 96. Novum seculum: The new birth for Rome, 97.

Literature of the Golden Age, 101. Merivale's estimate of Livy, 107. Livy as the

artistic limner of the Roman people, 109. The spirit of the times, 112.