Outline of ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC. In its centuries of existence, Roman civilization shifted from a monarchy to an oligarchic republic to an increasingly autocratic empire which came to dominate South-Western Europe, South-Eastern Europe/Balkans and the Mediterranean region through conquest and assimilation.

The Western Roman Empire went into decline and disappeared in the 5th century AD. The Eastern Roman Empire, survived this crisis and lived on for another millennium - that stage of the Empire is usually referred to as the Byzantine Empire by historians, and is considered to have succeeded Ancient Rome.

Roman civilization is often grouped into "classical antiquity" with ancient Greece, a civilization that inspired much of the culture of ancient Rome. Ancient Rome contributed greatly to the development of law, war, art, literature, architecture, technology and language in the Western world, and its history continues to have a major influence on the world today.

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to ancient Rome:

Julius Caesar

Essence of Ancient Rome

Main article: Ancient Rome

• Civilization
• Classical antiquity
• Classical Rome
• Greco-Roman world

Geography of ancient Rome

Places

• Roman provinces
  • Britain
    • List of Roman governors of Britain
    • Roman road from London to Bath
    • Roman sites in the United Kingdom
  • Judea
    • Aelia Capitolina
  • Macedonia

Further information: Roman geographers

Government and politics of ancient Rome

• Political institutions of Ancient Rome
• Curia
• Forum
• Cursus honorum
• Collegiality
• Emperor
• Legatus
• Dux
• Officium
• Praefectus
• Vicarius
• Vigintisexviri
• Lictor
• Magister militum
• Imperator
• Princeps senatus
• Pontifex Maximus
• Augustus
• Caesar
• Tetrarch
• Province
• SPQR

Magistrates

Ordinary magistrates

• Tribune
• Quaestor
• Aedile
• Praetor
• Consul
• Censor
• Promagistrate
• Governor

Extraordinary magistrates

• Dictator
• Magister Equitum
• Decemviri
• Consular Tribune
• Triumvir
• Rex
• Interrex

Roman law

• Roman laws
• Twelve Tables
• Roman citizenship
• Auctoritas
• Imperium
• Status in Roman legal system
• Roman litigation
• Roman Constitution

Military of ancient Rome

• Weapons
  • Catapult
  • Gladius
  • Pilum

• Roman military diploma
• Praetorian Guard
• Victory titles
• Roman infantry tactics, strategy and battle formations
• Castra

Roman armed forces

• Roman army
  • Roman generals
  • Troops
    • Roman legions
      • List of Roman legions
    • Roman auxiliaries
  • Roman infantry tactics
  • Military equipment
    • Roman military personal equipment
    • Roman siege engines
• Navy
  • Fleet
• Decorations and punishments

Military history of Rome

• Borders of the Roman Empire
• Roman military frontiers and fortifications
  • Castra
• Military engineering of ancient Rome
• Military establishment of the Roman Republic
• Political history of the Roman military
• Strategy of the Roman military
• Structural history of the Roman military
• Technological history of the Roman military

Military conflict

• Campaign history of the Roman military
• Roman wars
• Roman battles
  • Battle of Cannae
  • Battle of Cape Ecnomus

General history of ancient Rome

Roman history, by period

• Founding of Rome
• Kingdom of Rome
  • Kings of Rome
• Roman Republic
  • Punic Wars
• Roman Empire
  • Principate
  • Dominate
  • Year of the four emperors
  • Gallic Empire
  • Five good emperors
  • Crisis of the third century
  • Tetrarchy
  • Decline
    • Western Empire
    • Eastern Empire
  • Fall of the Roman Empire

Roman history, by region

• History of Rome
• Hispania
• Roman Britain
  • Roman invasion of Britain
• Roman Egypt
• Roman Gaul
• Roman and Byzantine Greece

Roman historiography

Works on Roman history

• Ab Urbe Condita, by Titus Livius (around 59 BC - 17 AD), a monumental history of Rome, from its founding (traditionally dated to 753 BC).
• The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, by Edward Gibbon

Culture of ancient Rome

• Architecture –
  • Roman bridges –
  • Circus –
  • Roman domes –
  • Roman roofs –
• Art –

• Literature –

• Annales Maximi –

• Music –
• Theatre –

• Calendar –
• Clothing –
• Cuisine –
• Deforestation –
• Education –
• Festivals –
• Forum –
• Funerals and burials –
• Lustratio –
• Marriage –
• Naming conventions –
• Prostitution –
• Technology –

• Engineering –
• Medicine –

• Medical community –

• Wine in ancient Rome –

Social order

• Patricians –
• Plebs –

• Conflict of the Orders –
• Secessio plebis –

• Equestrian order –
• Gens –
• Slavery –
• Tribes –
• Women –

Religion in ancient Rome

• Imperial cult –

Gods

• Capitoline Triad –
  • Juno –
  • Jupiter –
  • Minerva –

Institutions

• Collegium Pontificum –
  • Vestal Virgin –
  • Rex Sacrorum –
  • Pontifex maximus –
  • Flamen –
• Augur –
• Quindecemviri sacris faciundis –
• Epulones –

Roman language (Latin)

• Romance languages –
• History of Latin –
  • Old Latin –
  • Classical Latin –
  • Vulgar Latin –
  • Medieval Latin –
  • Renaissance Latin –
  • New Latin –
  • Recent Latin –
  • Ecclesiastical Latin –
• Latin alphabet –
• Roman cursive –
• Roman square capitals –
• Rustic capitals –

Roman economy

• Roman agriculture
• Roman commerce
• Roman finance
• Roman currency
• Roman Republican coinage
• Roman provincial coins

Scholars

• Titus Livius

Writers

• • Apuleius
  • Catullus
  • Cicero
  • Curtius Rufus
  • Horace
  • Julius Caesar
  • Juvenal
  • Livy
  • Lucretius
  • Ovid
  • Petronius
  • Plautus
  • Pliny the Elder
  • Pliny the Younger
  • Propertius
  • Sallust
  • Seneca the Elder
  • Seneca the Younger
  • Suetonius
  • Tacitus
  • Virgil
  • Vitruvius

Modern

• Edward Gibbon

See also

Ancient Rome portal

• Outline of classical studies
• Daqin
• Classical orders
• Fiction set in ancient Rome

Ancient Roman lists

• Alphabetized list of notable ancient Romans
• Latin masculine nouns of the 1st Declension
• Latin phrases
• Roman cognomina
• Roman geographers
• Roman nomina
• Roman tribes
• Roman women
• Adjectival and demonymic forms of regions in Greco-Roman antiquity

References

External links

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