The Greatness and Decline of Rome, Vol. I: The Empire-Builders [Volume 1]

viii, 382 pp. CONTENTS: The Small Beginnings of a Great Empire; The First Military and Commercial Expansion of Rome in the Mediterranean Basin; The Gracchi and the New Italy; Marius and the Great Proletarian Rising of the Ancient World; Sulla and the Conservative Reaction; Caesar's Debut in Politics; The Conquest of Bithynia; The Invasion of Pontus and the Praetorship of Crassus; The New Popular Party; The Conquest of Armenia and the Financial Crisis in Italy; The Fall of Lucullus; Cicero and the Manilian Law; The Egyptian Project; How Caesar Become a Demagogue; Catiline; The Return of Pompey and the Trial of Clodius; The Three-Headed Monster; Empire-Building; Index.