Roman History

 

 

schedule for

Roman History

                             Dr. Mohamed Kenawi

Week

Subject

1

The early inhabitants of Italy
Italy geography - sources of the Roman history under the Republic

2

The early Roman Republic (509-265 B.C.)

The Roman government.

The legislative assemblies.

3

The stages of conflict among the Romans (494-287B.C.) social order (Patricians and Plebs)

4

Roman expansion in Italy till its unification in 265B.C. under Roman leadership.

5

Roman expansion in the Mediterranean Sea (265-133B.C.)

6

First Punic war between Rome and Cartage (264-241B.C.) and subsequent period till 218B.C.

7

Mid-Term Evaluation

8

Second Punic war (218-202B.C.)

9

Roman expansion and campaigns in the eastern Mediterranean (202-133B.C.)

The Roman revolution (133-44B.C.)

10

The Gracchi Brothers (133-122B.C.)

11

Gaius Marius (107-98B.C.)

12

Sulla and Outbreak of social war (90-88B.C.)

His dictatorship and death 78B.C.

13

The Great Leaders at the end of the Republic:

Pompey-Cicero-Caesar-Crassus.

14

The fall of the republic.

15

Final Exam

 

Selected bibliography:

· Crawford, M., The Roman Republic (1992).

· Crook, Y., Law and Life of Rome (1980)

· Gruen, E.S., The Hellenistic World and the coming of Rome 1-2 (1984)

· Harris, W.V., War and Imperialism in Republican Rome (1979).

· Lintott, A.W., Judicial Reform and Land Reform in the Roman World (1989).

· Nicolet, C., The World of the Citizen in Republican Rome (1980).

· Scullard, H.H., History of Roman World, 753-146B.C. (1980).

· Scullard, H.H., Roman Politics, 220-150B.C., edn 2 (1983).