Chapter Outline

I The Roman Peace 31-BCE-180 CE [WEB: Ancient History Sourcebook: Rome]

1. Geography
2. Pax Romana [TXT: Augustus (63 BCE-14 CE): Res Gestae Divi Augusti, c. 14 CE, long excerpts, in English]

II Economic and Social Conditions

1. Cities [IMG: Leptis Magna North Africa][IMG: The Aqueduct at Caesarea][TXT: Juvenal (c.55-c.130 CE): Satire 3: On the City of Rome]
2. Trade and Industry
3. Agriculture
4. Households [IMG: Roman Couple, Pompeii 1st Cent BCE]

III The Third and Fourth Centuries [WEB: Medieval Sourcebook: Late Antiquity]

1. Anarchy and Recovery [IMG: Diocletian][TXT: Petition to the Emperor Philip: On Official & Military Extortion, 246 CE][TXT: Diocletian (284-305 CE) and Constantine (308-337 CE): Efforts to Stabilize the Economy]
2. The New Religious Mood [TXT: Accounts of Personal Religion, c. 430 BCE - 300 CE]
1. Mystery religions [IMG: Mithras Killing a Bull] [IMG: Isis and Horus 3rd Cent Coptic cf. Mary and Jesus 5-6 Cent, from Fayum][TXT: Lucius Apuleius (c.123-c.170 CE): Isis, Queen of Heaven, from Book 11 of the Golden Ass]
2. Neoplatonism [2ND: Neoplatonism]
3. Mysticism

IV Christianity [WEB: From Jesus to Christ]

1. Jesus [TXT: The Sermon on the Mount: Matthew 5-7] [IMG: Jesus as Ruler of the Universe, Sinai, 6th Cent CE]
2. The Early Church [IMG: Icon of St. Paul][WEB: Ancient History Sourcebook: St Paul][WEB: The Christian Catacombs of Rome]
3. Christianity and Classical Culture [WEB: Ancient History Sourcebook: Christian Origins]
4. Christianity and Empire [TXT: Edict of Galerius and the "Edict of Milan", 311/313 CE]
5. Christianity and Judaism [WEB: Scrolls from the Dead Sea]
6. The Latin Doctors
1. Ambrose [TXT: Theodoret (c.393-466 CE): St. Ambrose Humiliates Theodosius the Great, Ecclesiastical History, V.17-18]
2. Jerome
3. Augustine [WEB: James O'Donnell's Augustine Page]