Includes bibliographical references (pages 482-497) and index
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Aurelia -- Gaius -- The praetor's son -- The grand design -- The Italian revolt -- Murdered clansmen and Jupiter's priest -- The consul's son-in-law -- Peripeteia -- The oak wreath -- The outsider -- Debut in the forum -- The Pontifex -- Warlords -- The old man's successor -- Alexander -- Pompeius' associate -- The Oligarchy divided -- Marius again -- Prelude to battle -- Leader of the resistance -- Counterattack -- Catilina's torment -- The conspiracy of Cicero and Catilina -- The promise of everlasting peace -- Caesar gives warning -- Pompeius miscalculates -- Deprived of a triumph -- Pompeius' consul -- Father-in-law to the great man -- Consolidating defenses -- Mastering the arts of war -- Apprenticeship in imperialism -- Consolidation in Gaul and at Rome -- "Shatter the confining bars of nature's gates ..." -- "Mighty in honor and fame" -- New victories, new glory -- Collapse of the Triumvirate -- At Bay -- An outsider once again -- Reconciliation in Gaul, Isolation at Rome -- Civil war? -- "The die is cast" -- More than dignity -- Master of Italy? -- Master of the West -- The consul and the rebel -- The toppling of Pompeius -- Egypt -- Master of the East? -- Submission and mutiny -- Master of Africa -- "The old order thrust out by the new" -- "Everlasting conflict ..." -- "Subversive" -- The ides of March