The History of Rome

Theodor Mommsen, Dero A. Saunders, John H. Collins

• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Year: 2013
• ISBN:
  9780486316178
• Topic: Histoire
• Subtopic: Histoire de la Rome antique

`One of the imperishable books of history.` — The History Book Club Review. This abridged edition makes the great German scholar's multi-volume work accessible to a larger audience. Rivaling Gibbon, Macaulay, and Burckhardt in its scope and power, it chronicles Roman society and government from the second century BC to the end of the Republic and rise of Julius Caesar — and helped earn Mommsen the 1902 Nobel Prize in Literature.

INDEX

NOTE: Roman practice with proper names is the indexer’s despair. A Roman ordinarily bore three names—a praenomen (first name), a nomen (family or gentile name), and a cognomen (branch of family name). Unfortunately there was no uniformity in the commonly used name—it might be the nomen, the cognomen, or a nickname which a man acquired and passed on to his descendants like a true family name. To confound confusion more, there were constant adoptions from one family to another, the adopted individual carrying both his original and adopted family names. Thus the great general and statesman of the second century B.C. is often called Scipio Africanus Minor, but equally often Scipio Aemilianus (because he was adopted into the Scipio family from the Aemilian gens), or Scipio Numantinus (because he conquered Numantia). In technical works on Roman history, consistency is obtained by listing all persons alphabetically by nomen. This system has its advantages, but it can hardly be applied in a work intended for the general reader. It results in listing Caesar, for example, under “Julius,” and Cicero under “Tullius.” Scipio Africanus Minor would not be listed under any of the names above, but under “Cornelius,” his adopted gentile nomen. The following index aims at usefulness rather than consistency. The better-known persons are listed under their most commonly used names, e.g. Caesar, Catiline, Pompey. Less well-known persons are generally listed under the name Mommsen uses in speaking of them, usually (but not always) the cognomen. The following standard Roman abbreviations are used for the common praenomina: A. — Aulus; Ap. — Appius; C. — Gaius; Cn. — Gnaeus; D. — Decimus; L. — Lucius; M. — Marcus; M’. — Manius; N. — Numerius; P. — Publius; Q. — Quintus; Ser. — Servius; Sex. — Sextus; Sp. — Spurius; T.— Titus; Ti.— Tiberius.

Achaeus, 30

Achillas, 452, 455

Adherbal, 95, 96–98 (passim)

Aemilianus, see Scipio

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