1. The genesis of a political community 2. Early Roman institutions 3. The Etruscans 4. From Monarchy to Republic 5. Rome's Republican institutions 6. Toward Italian hegemony 7. An aristocracy of government 8. The evolution of Roman law and jurisprudence 9. Rome's Mediterranean hegemony: new horizons in the third century BC 10. The reforms of the Gracchi and the crisis of the Roman ruling class 11. Sulla's attempted restoration and the twilight of the Republic 12. Civil war 13. Augustus: the construction of a new institutional system 14. The architecture of governance 15. The imperial order at its height 16. An empire of cities 17. The emperor and the law 18. The conclusion of a long journey.
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