Outline of ancient Rome

Julius Caesar

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

Ancient Rome – former civilization that thrived on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 8th century BC. Located along the Mediterranean Sea and centered on the city of Rome, it expanded to one of the largest empires in the ancient world.

Essence of Ancient Rome

Main article: Ancient Rome

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

Geography of ancient Rome

• Roman provinces
  • Roman Britain
    • Roman invasion of Britain
    • List of Roman governors of Britain
    • Roman road from London to Bath
    • Roman sites in the United Kingdom
  • Roman Egypt
  • Roman Gaul
  • Roman Greece
  • Hispania
  • Roman Judea
    • Roman Jerusalem
  • Macedonia

Further information: Roman geographers

Government and politics 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
• Populares

Political institutions of Ancient Rome

Main article: Political institutions of Ancient Rome

• of Ancient Rome in general
  • Roman Senate
  • Roman assemblies
    • Curiate Assembly
    • Century Assembly
    • Tribal Assembly
    • Plebeian
  • Executive magistrates
• of the Roman Kingdom
  • Senate of the Roman Kingdom
  • Legislative Assemblies of the Roman Kingdom
  • Executive Magistrates of the Roman Kingdom
• of the Roman Republic
  • Senate of the Roman Republic
  • Legislative Assemblies of the Roman Republic
  • Executive Magistrates of the Roman Republic
• of the Roman Empire
  • Senate of the Roman Empire
  • Legislative Assemblies of the Roman Empire
  • Executive Magistrates of the Roman Empire

Magistrates

Main article: Magistratus

Ordinary magistrates

Main article: Ordinary magistrate

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

Extraordinary magistrates

Main article: Extraordinary magistrate

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

Roman law

Main article: Roman law

• Roman laws
• Twelve Tables
• Roman citizenship
• Auctoritas
• Imperium
• Status in Roman legal system
• Roman litigation
• Roman Constitution
  • History of the Roman Constitution
  • Constitution of the Roman Kingdom
    • History of the Constitution of the Roman Kingdom
  • Constitution of the Roman Republic
    • History of the Constitution of the Roman Republic
    • Constitutional Reforms of Lucius Cornelius Sulla
    • Constitutional Reforms of Julius Caesar
  • Constitution of the Roman Empire
    • History of the Constitution of the Roman Empire
  • History of the Constitution of the Late Roman Empire (post Diocletian)
    • Constitution of the Late Roman Empire

Military of ancient Rome

Main article: 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

Main article: Military history of ancient 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

Main articles: Roman era, History of Rome, and Timeline of ancient Rome

• Founding of Rome
• Kingdom of Rome
  • Kings of Rome
• Roman Republic
  • Punic Wars
• Roman Empire
  • Principate (27 BC – 284 AD) – first period of the Roman Empire, extending from the beginning of the reign of Caesar Augustus to the Crisis of the Third Century, after which it was replaced with the Dominate.
    • Year of the four emperors (69 AD)
    • Nerva–Antonine dynasty (96-192 AD) –
      • Crisis of the third century (235–284 AD)
        • Gallic Empire (260-274 AD)
  • Dominate (284-476 AD) – 'despotic' latter phase of government in the ancient Roman Empire from the conclusion of the Third Century Crisis until the collapse of the Western Empire.
    • Tetrarchy (293-313 AD)
    • Decline of the Roman Empire
      • Western Roman Empire
      • Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire)
  • Fall of the Roman Empire (476 AD)
• Legacy of the Roman Empire

Roman historiography

Main article: 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

Main article: Culture of ancient Rome

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

• Literature –

• Annales Maximi –

• Music –
• Theatre –

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

• Engineering –
• Medicine –

• Medical community –

• Wine in ancient Rome –

Social order

Main article: Social class in ancient Rome

• Patricians –
• Plebs –

• Conflict of the Orders –
• Secessio plebis –

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

See also: Romanization (cultural)

Religion in ancient Rome

Main articles: Religion in ancient Rome and Roman mythology

• Imperial cult –

Gods

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

Institutions

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

See also: Etruscan mythology and Persecution of religion in ancient Rome

Roman language (Latin)

Main article: Latin

• Romance languages –
• History of Latin –
  • Old Latin –
  • Classical Latin –
  • Vulgar Latin –
  • Medieval Latin –
  • Renaissance Latin –
  • New Latin –
  • Contemporary 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

Writers

• • Apuleius
  • Catullus
  • Cicero
  • Quintus 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

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

See also

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

External links

• Ancient Rome resources for students from the Courtenay Middle School Library.
• History of Ancient Rome OpenCourseWare from the University of Notre Dame providing free resources including lectures, discussion questions, assignments and exams.
• Ancient Rome portal at Encarta Encyclopedia
• Gallery of the Ancient Art: Ancient Rome
• Lacus Curtius
• Livius.Org
• Nova Roma - Educational Organization about "All Things Roman"
• The Private Life of the Romans by Harold Whetstone Johnston
• United Nations of Roma Victrix (UNRV) History
• Water and Wastewater Systems in Imperial Rome
• Ancient Rome at The History Channel