Study Notes for Chapter 1 of "From Gracchi to Nero, A History of Rome 133 BC to AD 68" by: H.H. Scullard

Chapter 1: Rome at the Cross-Roads

September 14, 2004

I)         Introductory ~

* The two party boss themes of this book:

a)         First the century in which the Republic failed to represent the challenge and in consequence crashed to its ruin amid civil fight and host dictatorship.

b)         Then the following century when the war-weary world was habituated peace and a stable government though at the cost of seeing the Republic restored only in piddle by a First Citizen whose authority did not protest widely from that of a constitutional monarch and whose successors became increasingly autocratic.

II)         The step-up of Romes Empire ~

* After the expulsion of the Etruscan king, Tarquinius Superbus, at the end of the munificent Period (510 B.C.), the romishs had established a Republic which gradually came to have all Italy. This process was not achieved by military oppression alone, and in fact Roman religious law (the ius fetiale) did not countenance wars of aggression designed to gain new territory.

* very(prenominal) slowly, partly by accident and partly by design, Roman interest extended throughout central Italy and ultimately throughout the peninsula, so that by 264 B.C. she had become the dominant political and military power.

a)         She had united all Italy within the framework of a Confederacy.

* The Romans were nearly generous in sharing their own citizenship with others:

a)         Thus they had interconnected a considerable part of Italy in their own enounce by granting all or some of the privileges of Roman citizenship to more of the cities and tribes with which they had come into contact.

b)         With the rest of Italy they had contracted alliances of varying conditions.

* The First unreliable War (264-241 B.C.) when after a long and bitter effort the Romans drove the Carthaginians out of Sicily. This they...

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