Includes index.

Introduction -- Timelines -- The Etruscans -- Beginnings of Rome -- War with Carthage -- Early years of crisis -- Republican Rome -- Rise of Caesar -- Empire of Augustus -- Provinces and frontiers -- The emperors -- Imperial Rome -- The later empire -- Geography of the empire -- Africa -- Sites : Leptis Magna, Timgad -- Spain and Portugal -- Gaul and Germany -- Sites : Eestr'es-Sur-Noye, N'mes, Trier -- Britain -- Sites : Silchester, Hadrian's Wall -- The Danube -- Greece and the Balkans -- Sites : Athens, Corinth -- Asia Minor -- Sites : Ephesus, Aphrodisias -- The exotic East -- Sites : Palmyra, Masada -- Egypt.