A brief epitome of Roman history from Romulus to Augustus, organised around the metaphor of Rome's life-stages — infancy, youth, maturity, and senescence. A rhetorical summary rather than a critical history.
Start ReadingRoman history from the kings through the Republic's expansion. The wars that made Rome: against the Gauls, the Samnites, Pyrrhus, and Carthage.
The late Republic and the civil wars. Gracchi, Marius, Sulla, Pompey, Caesar. Florus traces the moral decline that led to the loss of liberty.