I. Continuing Roman Expansion

    A. War with the Gauls in Upper Italy (200-190 BC)
        1. Via Aemilia and Via Flaminia

    B. War with the Macedonians (200-197 BC)

    C. War with the Seleucids (192-188 BC)
        1. Antiochus III and Thermopylae (191)
        2. Peace of Apamea (188)

    D. War with Macedonians, again (171-168 BC)
        1. Following uprising, Macedonia became a Roman province in 147 BC)

    E. The Third Punic War (149-146 BC)
        1. Cato the Censor: "Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendum"

    F. War with the Slaves (136-132 BC)
        1. Eunus and the Sicilian latifundiae

    G. Attalos III of Pergamum and the gift of a kingdom (133 BC)

II. The Roman Revolution (133-30 BC)

    A. Vae victus = "Woe to the conquered"

    B. The Gracchi Reform Movement
        1. Tiberius Gracchus (133) Plebeian Tribune
            a. Restrictions on size of latifundia
            b. Resettlement of proletariat
            c. Lex frumentaria
            d. The problem of M. Octavius

        2. Gaius Gracchus (123-122) Plebeian Tribune
            a. Old reform agenda with new additions
            b. 121 BC and the Aventine Hill

    C. Gaius Marius (d. 89 BC)
        1. The Jugurthine War (111-105) and a super-patron of the army
        2. Alliance with Tribune Livius Drusus and the resurrection of the lex agraria
        3. War of the Allies (91-89)
            a. Rome expands from city-state to "nation"

    D. Cornelius Sulla (d. 78): the Optimates strike back
        1. "The Ephesian Vespers" (88)
        2. Peace of Dardanus (84) and the return of Sulla to Rome
        3. The Dictatorship of Sulla (82-79)
            a. A little help from his friends: Pompeius Magnus
            b. The Second Slave War (73-71)
                i. Spartacus, the Kirk Douglas of ancient Rome

    E. Consulate of Pompey and Crassus
        1. imperium extraordinarium
        2. Mithridates at it again (66) and Pompey's reorganization of the East

    F. The First Triumvirate of Pompey, Crassus and Casear (60)
        1. Private agreement of mutual support without legal sanction
        2. Consulate of Pompey and Crassus and Casear in Gaul (58-51)
        3. Pompey named Consul sine collega (52) by the Senate
        4. 7 January, 49 and the Senatus consultum ultimum

    G. Casear reorganizes Rome
        1. The many titles of Casear
        2. "Beware the Ides of March"

    H. The Second Triumvirate (Antony, Lepidus, Octavian)
        1. Legal sanction without mutual support
        2. Battleing the Assassins
        3. Lepidus as Pontifex Maximus and the marriage of Antony and Cleopatra VII
            a. The Ptolemaic War (32-30)

III. The Principate of Augustus (27 BC-AD 14)

    A. Restoration of the Republic or something else?