Caesar and Christ : a history of Roman civilization and of Christianity from their beginnings to A.D. 325

Durant, Will, 1885-1981 (author.).

Summary:

"Roman life--politics, economics, literature, art, morals."

Record details

ISBN: 0671115006
ISBN: 9780671115005
ISBN: 0965000745
ISBN: 9780965000741
Physical Description: xvi, 751 pages, [20] leaves of plates : maps, charts ; 25 cm.
Publisher: New York : Simon and Schuster, [1944]
Copyright: �1944

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 673-680) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Etruscan prelude: 800-508 B.C. -- The struggle for democracy: 508-264 B.C. -- Hannibal against Rome: 264-202 B.C. -- Stoic Rome: 508-202 B.C. -- The Greek conquest: 201-146 B.C. -- The agrarian revolt: 145-78 B.C. -- The oligarchic reaction 77-60 B.C. -- Literature under the revolution: 145-30 B.C. -- Caesar: 100-44 B.C. -- Antony: 44-30 B.C. -- Augustan statesmanship: 30 B.C.-A.D. 14 -- The golden age: 30 B.C.-A.D. 18 -- The other side of monarchy: A.D. 14-96 -- The silver age: A.D. 14-96 -- Rome at work: A.D. 14-96 -- Rome and its art: 30 B.C.-A.D. 96 -- Epicurean Rome: 30 B.C.-A.D. 96 -- Roman law 146 B.C.-A.D. 192 -- The philosopher kings: A.D. 96-180 -- Life and thought in the second century: A.D. 96-192 -- Italy -- Civilizing the west -- Roman Greece -- The Hellenistic revival -- Rome and Judea: 132 B.C.-A.D. 135 -- Jesus: 4 B.C.-A.D. 30 -- The Apostles: A.D. 30-95 -- The growth of the church: A.D. 96-305 -- The collapse of the empire: A.D. 193-305 -- The triumph of Christianity: A.D. 306-325.