The History of Rome Volume 3 [Paperback]

A nineteenth-century book that revolutionised scholarly views on ancient Rome and the understanding of history as an academic discipline.This three-volume English translation of Niebuhrs History of Rome (from the second, revised German edition) appeared between 1828 and 1842. At a time when the field was developing rapidly, Niebuhrs book had a lasting impact on its own subject area and the understanding of history as an academic discipline.This three-volume English translation of Niebuhrs History of Rome (from the second, revised German edition) appeared between 1828 and 1842. At a time when the field was developing rapidly, Niebuhrs book had a lasting impact on its own subject area and the understanding of history as an academic discipline.This three-volume English translation of Barthold Georg Niebuhr's influential History of Rome was published between 1828 and 1842. It follows the second German edition, which the author contrasts with the earlier edition (18111812, translated into English in 1827) as being 'the work of a man who has reached his maturity'. The early part of the nineteenth century saw important developments in philological scholarship in Germany, and Niebuhr's international career as a statesman and scholar reflected Germany's new-found confidence in the wider world. His book had a lasting impact both within its own subject area and on the understanding of history as an academic discipline, and was a landmark of nineteenth-century European scholarship. Volume 3 begins with the Licinian rogations and ends with the first Punic war.Preface; 1. The Licinian rogations; 2. The new curule dignities of the year 384; 3. Internal history down to the complete establishment of the plebeian consulship; On the uncial rate of interest; 4. History of the wars from 384 to 406; 5. Rome in alliance with Latium; 6. The earliest constitution of the manipular legion; 7. The first Samnite War; 8. The Latin War; 9. The laws of the dictator Q. Publilius; 10. Internal l£"