1. Ancient Rome

2. The Etruscans

3. 7 Hills on the Tiber

4. Romulus and Remus

6. The laws of the twelve tables are one of the earliest known law codes.
The 12 Tables C. 499 B.C.E.
The laws of the twelve tables are one of the earliest known law codes.

7. Quickly kill ... a dreadfully deformed child.
The 12 Tables: Excerpts
Quickly kill ... a dreadfully deformed child.

8. If a father thrice surrender a son for sale, the son shall be free from the father.

9. A child born ten months after the father's death will not be admitted into a legal inheritance.

10. If any person has sung or composed against another person a song such as was causing slander or insult to another, he shall be clubbed to death.

12. A spendthrift is forbidden to exercise administration over his own goods.

13. Intermarriage shall not take place between plebeians and patricians.

16. Early Roman Expansion: Factors
The Citizen Army
Treatment of Conquered People
Adaptation of Social and Political Structures

18. Carthage

19. Hannibal

23. Scipio Africanus

24. Battle of Zama, 202 B.C.E.

25. Tiberius Gracchus 163-133 B.C.E.
                         
                         
Tiberius Gracchus B.C.E.

26. Brothers Gracchi

27. Marius B.C.E.

28. Sulla B.C.E.

29. From Plutarch’s Life of Sulla
"The time in which he lived was no longer an age of pure and upright manners, but had already declined, and yielded to the appetite for riches and luxury..."
From Plutarch’s Life of Sulla
"The time in which he lived was no longer an age of pure and upright manners, but had already declined, and yielded to the appetite for riches and luxury..."

30. Cicero B.C.E.

31. Cicero

33. Cato

34. Crassus B.C.E.

35. Spartacus -71 B.C.E.

36. Pompey B.C.E.

37. Julius Caesar B.C.E.

38. "…They [the hostile senators] have seduced Pompey
"…They [the hostile senators] have seduced Pompey and led him astray, through jealous belittling of my merits I ask you to defend my reputation and standing against the assaults of my enemies." Caesar, the civil war

43. Rome in Caesar’s Time

44. Julian Forum

45. Cleopatra

48. Murder of Caesar

49. At Caesar’s Forum

50. Brutus

51. The Roman Empire

52. Marc Antony B.C.E.

53. Lepidus

54. Octavian

55. Augustus 31 B.C.E.- A.D. 14

58. Tiberius 14-37

59. Caligula 37-41

60. Claudius 41-54

61. Nero 54-68

62. Seneca 4 B.C.E.-A.D. 65

63. Vespasian 69-79

65. Colosseum

66. Scale Model

67. Pantheon

68. Interior of the Pantheon, Giovanni Panini, 1740