Ancient History for Colleges and High Schools

Originally published in 1894, PREFACE: In this book Professor Allen desired briefly to relate the history of the Roman People. To him Roman Society presented itself an entirety, so that the political, economic, literary, and religious elements in the life of the Roman people could not be understood in isolation, but only in relation with each other. While thus he considered society as a whole, he found in Roman history two fundamentally important series of events, each of which influenced the other: first, the policy and process by which the Roman Dominion was secured an organized during the Republic, its organization under the Empire, and final disruption at the time of German migrations; and secondly, the social and economic causes of the failure of self government among the Romans, and the working of the same forces under the Empire. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republ