"The material offered here is based on extensive, often verbatim notes by two students, Mr. George Bock and Mrs. Helen Mann, who were students in the course on Roman history offered at The City College of New York, in 1959"--P. viii.

Some basic concepts : Greek backgrounds and the three phases of Roman history -- The first phase : the overthrow of the monarchy and the expansion of the republic to the destruction of Carthage in 146 B.C. -- The second phase : the fall of the republic from the destruction of Carthage in 146 B.C. to the death of Augustus in 14 A.D. -- The third phase : the empire after the death of Augustus.