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Authors: Tom Holland
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religion and beliefs: childhood rituals,
112
; Compitalia,
18
,
231
,
237
; gods,
18
; Good Goddess,
210
–
11
,
290
; Mithras cult,
172
; temples,
15
Republic, Roman: attitude to monarchy,
314
; beginning of,
2
–
6
; comparisons with modern world,
xxi
-
xxii
; controls on ambition,
264
; definition,
5
;
Republic, Roman –
cont
documentary evidence,
xxiii
; effect of civil war on,
316
–
18
; end of,
xix
,
xxi
,
xxv
; expansion,
6
–
11
,
34
–
6
; mistrust of foreign influences,
332
–
3
,
341
–
2
; rebellions against,
44
–
7
,
50
,
53
–
77
; Roman faith in,
295
; vacuum left by senators’ withdrawal,
309
–
10
revolutions,
xx
Rhine, river: crossing of,
273
roads,
10
Rome, city of,
11
–
22
; Caesar’s plans for,
342
,
344
; class divisions,
19
,
22
–
30
; exploitation of provinces,
37
–
45
; growth and development,
14
–
15
;
pomerium
,
72
,
106
; poverty,
15
–
19
;
see also
Forum; Capitol; Palatine Hill
Sabine women,
56
Samnium and Samnites,
49
–
50
,
58
–
9
,
65
,
71
,
108
; defeat at Colline Gate,
91
–
2
; fate of captives,
92
–
3
,
95
,
97
,
99
; gladiators dressed as,
143
Senate,
37
–
9
; age of members,
104
; and appointment of proconsuls,
154
–
5
; attitudes to financial gain,
43
; and Caesar,
298
–
9
,
315
–
16
,
344
–
6
; and Catulus,
137
–
8
; and Cicero’s recall,
253
–
4
; and Clodius,
215
,
262
; and Compitalia,
231
; conservatism,
194
; and Crassus,
139
; eligibility for,
93
; in exile,
309
–
10
,
321
; food laws,
187
; hierarchy,
105
; and Italian rebellions,
58
,
67
; and Octavian,
358
,
359
–
60
,
377
–
80
; and Pompey,
221
–
2
,
260
; restoration of
collegia
,
237
; right of praetor to convene,
104
; and Sulla,
72
–
5
,
88
,
97
,
102
,
105
–
7
,
123
; and traditional families,
123
–
4
; and first triumvirate,
237
,
305
,
308
; and wine trade,
246
–
7
sewage,
16
Sibyl, prophecies of,
1
–
2
,
3
,
8
,
11
,
32
–
4
,
36
,
171
,
315
; destruction of books,
85
; Mithridates uses as propaganda,
46
; Virgil on,
367
Sicily,
173
,
365
: Cicero in,
131
; as first Roman province,
7
,
8
,
10
; slave revolt,
180
; Verres’ corruption,
133
–
4
silver,
43
slaves: conditions,
146
–
7
,
171
; escaped,
225
; and mining,
42
; numbers,
42
,
146
; revolts,
145
–
50
,
171
,
180
; role in social
hierarchy,
147
; supply and trade,
48
,
146
,
170
–
71
Spain,
10
,
89
; Caesar in,
317
,
338
,
340
; Carthage and,
7
,
8
; mining,
42
–
3
;
142
,
149
,
155
,
263
,
283
–
4
,
310
,
316
; Pompey’s supporters in,
330
; war against Marians,
141
–
2
,
155
,
156
,
157
Stabiae,
53
Sulla, Lucius Cornelius: awards himself title ‘Felix’,
99
; Caesar and,
118
–
19
,
120
–
21
,
311
–
12
,
2
–
338
; campaigns in Greece and Asia,
80
–
83
,
129
,
155
–
6
; and civil war,
62
,
63
–
77
; consolidates victory and removes opponents,
97
–
101
; Crassus and,
100
,
139
; defeats Samnites,
91
–
2
; as dictator,
102
–
7
,
110
,
123
,
127
,
136
–
8
,
218
; and food laws,
187
; legacy and death,
109
,
127
; and Lucullus,
157
; Pompey and,
90
–
91
,
110
–
11
,
141
–
2
,
157
; punishment of Nola,
108
; resignation,
107
,
129
; return to high living,
106
–
7
; return to Rome,
89
–
91
; sightings of ghost of,
308
; Sullan regime,
122
,
136
–
7
,
157
–
8
,
198
; treatment of Samnite captives,
92
–
3
,
95
,
97
,
99
Surrentum,
53
Syme, Ronald,
xxii
temples,
15
: of Bellona,
96
; of Castor and Pollux,
85
,
88
,
96
; of Isis,
333
; of Jupiter,
3
,
32
,
84
–
5
,
88
,
96
,
106
–
7
,
136
; of Saturn,
316
; of Venus,
283
,
321
,
343
; of Vesta,
374
Thessalonica,
314
Thracians,
143
Tigranes, Prince,
250
toys,
114
trade,
47
–
8
,
79
–
80
,
89
; in slaves,
47
,
163
,
170
,
247
; in wine,
246
–
7
trade associations,
see collegia
tribunate,
5
,
27
–
30
,
68
; Clodius and,
236
–
40
,
249
–
52
; Curio and,
300
–
301
; elections for,
94
; Milo and,
253
,
255
; Sulla’s emasculation of,
105
,
123
; Sulla’s law removed,
137
,
151
,
174
Tusculum,
186
United States of America,
xxi
