Young Folks' History of Rome

Project Gutenberg, Charlotte Mary Yonge

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Project Gutenberg's Young Folks' History of Rome, by Charlotte Mary Yonge This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Young Folks' History of Rome Author: Charlotte Mary Yonge Release Date: September 7, 2005 [EBook #16667] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK YOUNG FOLKS' HISTORY OF ROME *** Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Graeme Mackreth and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Illustration] YOUNG FOLKS' HISTORY OF ROME. BY CHARLOTTE M. YONGE, AUTHOR OF "THE HEIR OF REDCLYFFE," "BOOK OF GOLDEN DEEDS," "YOUNG FOLKS' HISTORY OF FRANCE," &c. [Illustration] BOSTON: ESTES & LAURIAT, 301 WASHINGTON STREET. COPYRIGHT BY D. LOTHROP & CO. and ESTES & LAURIAT. 1880.PREFACE. This sketch of the History of Rome covers the period till the reign of Charles the Great as head of the new Western Empire. The history has been given as briefly as could be done consistently with such details as can alone make it interesting to all classes of readers. CHARLOTTE M. YONGE. CONTENTS. CHAP. PAGE. 1.--Italy 13 2.--The Wanderings of neas 21� 3.--The Founding of Rome. B.C. 753-713 31 4.--Numa and Tullus. B.C. 713-618 39 5.--The Driving Out of the Tarquins. B.C. 578-309 47 6.--The War with Porsena 55 7.--The Roman Government 66 8.--Menenius Agrippa's Fable. B.C. 494 74 9.--Coriolanus and Cincinnatus. B.C. 458 84 10.--The Decemvirs. B.C. 450 92 11.--Camillus' Banishment 101 12.--The Sack of Rome. B.C. 390 110 13.--The Plebeian Consulate. B.C. 367 119 14.--The Devotion of Decius. B.C. 357 127 15.--The Samnite Wars 135 16.--The War with Pyrrhus. 280-271 144 17.--The First Punic War. 264-240 151 18.--Conquest of Cisalpine Gaul. 240-219 163 19.--The Second Punic War. 219 172 20. The First Eastern War. 215-183 181 21.--The Conquest of Greece, Corinth, and Carthage. 179-145 188 22.--The Gracchi. 137-122 195 23.--The Wars of Marius. 106-98 20324.--The Adventures of Marius. 93-84 212 25.--Sulla's Proscription. 88-71 220 26.--The Career of Pompeius. 70-63 229 27.--Pompeius and C sar. 61-48 242� 28.--Julius C sar.� 48-44 252 29.--The Second Triumvirate. 44-33 263 30.--C�sar Augustus. B.C. 33 A.D. 14 273 31.--Tiberius and Caligula. A.D. 14-41 285 32.--Claudius and Nero. A.D. 41-68 297 33.--The Flavian Family. 62-96 305 34.--The Age of the Antonines. 96-194 317 35.--The Pr tor�ian Influence. 197-284 326 36.--The Division of the Empire. 284-312 337 37.--Constantine the Great. 312-337 345 38.--Constantius. 337-364 355 39.--Valentinian and his Family. 364-392 364 40.--Theodosius the Great. 392-395 374 41.--Alaric the Goth. 395-410 383 42.--The Vandals. 403 394 43.--Attila the Hun. 435-457 404 44.--Theodoric the Ostrogoth. 457-561 416 45.--Belisarius. 533-563 425 46.--Pope Gregory the Great. 563-800 434 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. The Pope's Doortender. (_Frontispiece._) PAGE. The Tiber 14 Curious Pottery 15 Jupiter 17 The Coast 23 Mount Etna 25Carthage 28 Roman Soldier 30 Gladiatorial Shows at a Banquet 34 The Forum 37 Janus 41 Actors 45 Sybil's Cave 50 Brutus condemning his sons 57 Roman Ensigns, Standards, Trumpets etc. 63 Head of Jupiter 68 Female Costumes 70 Female Costumes 71 Senatorial Palace 79 View of a Roman Harbor 81 Roman Camp 87 Ploughing 89 Death of Virginia 95 Chariot Races 98 Arrow Machine 102 Siege Machine 105 Ruins of the Forum at Rome 111 Entry of the Forum Romanum by the Via Sacra 117 Costumes 120 Costume 121 Curtius leaping into the Gulf 125 The Apennines 129 Combat between a Mirmillo and a Samnite 137 Combat between a light armed Gladiator and a Samnite 137 Ancient Rome 141 Pyrrhus 145 Roman Orator 147 Roman Ship 153Roman Order of Battle 159 The wounded Gaul 165 Hannibal's Vow 168 In the Pyrenees 170 Meeting of Hannibal and Scipio at Zama 173 Archimedes 178 Hannibal 184 Corinth 190 Cornelia and her Sons 196 Roman Centurion 201 Marius 205 One of the Trophies, called of Marius, at the Capitol at Rome 207 The Catapult 215 Island on the Coast 217 Palazzo Vecchio, Florence 223 Cornelius Sulla 225 Coast of Tyre 231 Mountains of Armenia 235 Cicero 238 Colossal Statue of Pompeius of the Palazzo Spada of Rome 239 Pompeius 243 Amphitheatre 246 The Arena 247 Julius C sar 253� Cato 254 Funeral Solemnities in the Columbarium of the House of Julius C sar at the � Porta Capena in Rome 255 Marcus Antonius 265 Marcus Brutus 268 Alexandria 270 Caius Octavius 272Statue of Augustus at the Vatican 275 Paintings in the House of Livia 281 Ruins of the Palaces of Tiberius