Luigi Capogrossi Colognesi served as Professor of Roman Law at the Universities of Macerata and Pisa from 1971, and at the University of Rome 'La Sapienza' from 1981, where he is now Professor Emeritus. He has an international reputation in many areas of research including the history of property law, the history of Roman agrarian institutions and economics, and the history of social sciences in the nineteenth century, with particular reference to Max Weber's thinking on ancient history.

• 1. The genesis of a political community; 2. Early Roman institutions; 3. The Etruscans; 4. From Monarchy to Republic; 5. Rome's Republican institutions; 6. Toward Italian hegemony; 7. An aristocracy of government; 8. The evolution of Roman law and jurisprudence; 9. Rome's Mediterranean hegemony: new horizons in the third century BC; 10. The reforms of the Gracchi and the crisis of the Roman ruling class; 11. Sulla's attempted restoration and the twilight of the Republic; 12. Civil war; 13. Augustus: the construction of a new institutional system; 14. The architecture of governance; 15. The imperial order at its height; 16. An empire of cities; 17. The emperor and the law; 18. The conclusion of a long journey.

Luigi Capogrossi Colognesi served as Professor of Roman Law at the Universities of Macerata and Pisa from 1971, and at the University of Rome 'La Sapienza' from 1981, where he is now Professor Emeritus. He has an international reputation in many areas of research including the history of property law, the history of Roman agrarian institutions and economics, and the history of social sciences in the nineteenth century, with particular reference to Max Weber's thinking on ancient history.

• 1. The genesis of a political community; 2. Early Roman institutions; 3. The Etruscans; 4. From Monarchy to Republic; 5. Rome's Republican institutions; 6. Toward Italian hegemony; 7. An aristocracy of government; 8. The evolution of Roman law and jurisprudence; 9. Rome's Mediterranean hegemony: new horizons in the third century BC; 10. The reforms of the Gracchi and the crisis of the Roman ruling class; 11. Sulla's attempted restoration and the twilight of the Republic; 12. Civil war; 13. Augustus: the construction of a new institutional system; 14. The architecture of governance; 15. The imperial order at its height; 16. An empire of cities; 17. The emperor and the law; 18. The conclusion of a long journey.

Luigi Capogrossi Colognesi served as Professor of Roman Law at the Universities of Macerata and Pisa from 1971, and at the University of Rome 'La Sapienza' from 1981, where he is now Professor Emeritus. He has an international reputation in many areas of research including the history of property law, the history of Roman agrarian institutions and economics, and the history of social sciences in the nineteenth century, with particular reference to Max Weber's thinking on ancient history.

• 1. The genesis of a political community; 2. Early Roman institutions; 3. The Etruscans; 4. From Monarchy to Republic; 5. Rome's Republican institutions; 6. Toward Italian hegemony; 7. An aristocracy of government; 8. The evolution of Roman law and jurisprudence; 9. Rome's Mediterranean hegemony: new horizons in the third century BC; 10. The reforms of the Gracchi and the crisis of the Roman ruling class; 11. Sulla's attempted restoration and the twilight of the Republic; 12. Civil war; 13. Augustus: the construction of a new institutional system; 14. The architecture of governance; 15. The imperial order at its height; 16. An empire of cities; 17. The emperor and the law; 18. The conclusion of a long journey.