Including an account of political and military developments, and including sections on social, economic an cultural life, this book presents a survey of the Roman world at a time when the Principate was established, and the Pax Romana consolidated.
1: The Founding of the Principate; 1: Augustus Princeps; 2: Italy; 3: The Provinces; 4: The Frontiers and Beyond; 5: The Literature of the Augustan Age; 2: The Julio-Claudian Emperors; 1a: Tiberius; 2a: Gaius; 3a: Claudius; 4a: Nero; 3: The Italian Emperors; 1b: Anarchy; 2b: Vespasian; 3b: Titus; 4b: Domitian; 5b: Flavian Frontiers; 6b: The Economic Life of the Empire; 7b: Literature Between A.D. 50 and 100; 4: The Non-Italian Emperors; 1c: Nerva; 2c: Trajan; 3c: Hadrian; 4c: The Rise of Christianity; 5c: Literature and Art in the Early Second Century
