AUTHOR OF "THE HEIR OF REDCLYFFE," "BOOK OF GOLDEN DEEDS," "YOUNG FOLKS'HISTORY OF FRANCE," &c.
BOSTON:
ESTES & LAURIAT,
301 WASHINGTON STREET.
COPYRIGHT BY
D. LOTHROP & CO. and ESTES & LAURIAT.
1880.
This sketch of the History of Rome covers the period till the reign ofCharles the Great as head of the new Western Empire. The history hasbeen given as briefly as could be done consistently with such details ascan alone make it interesting to all classes of readers.
CHARLOTTE M. YONGE.
3.—The Founding of Rome. B.C. 753-713
4.—Numa and Tullus. B.C. 713-618.
5.—The Driving Out of the Tarquins. B.C. 578-309
8.—Menenius Agrippa's Fable. B.C. 494
9.—Coriolanus and Cincinnatus. B.C. 458
12.—The Sack of Rome. B.C. 390
13.—The Plebeian Consulate. B.C. 367
14.—The Devotion of Decius. B.C. 357
16.—The War with Pyrrhus. 280-271
17.—The First Punic War. 264-240
18.—Conquest of Cisalpine Gaul. 240-219