Caesar and Christ

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/The_Story_of_Civilization#/III._Caesar_and_Christ_(1944) The Story of Civilization, by husband and wife Will and Ariel Durant, is an 11-volume set of books covering Western history for the general reader. The series was written over a span of more than five decades. It totals four million words across nearly 10,000 pages, with 2 further books in production at the time of the authors' deaths.<1] III. Caesar and Christ (1944) Bust of Julius Caesar Bust of Julius Caesar The volume covers the history of Rome and of Christianity until the time of Constantine the Great. Introduction: Origins Etruscan Prelude: 800–508 BC The Republic: 508–30 BC The Struggle for Democracy: 508–264 BC Hannibal Against Rome: 264 BC-202 BC Stoic Rome: 508–202 BC The Greek Conquest: 201 BC-146 BC "The new generation, having inherited world mastery, had no time or inclination to defend it; that readiness for war which had characterized the Roman landowner disappeared now that ownership was concentrated in a few families and a proletariat without stake in the country filled the slums of Rome." (p. 90) The Revolution: 145–30 BC The Agrarian Revolt: 145–78 BC The Oligarchic Reaction: 77–60 BC Literature Under the Revolution: 145–30 BC Caesar: 100–44 BC Antony: 44–30 BC "Children were now luxuries which only the poor could afford." (p. 134) The Principate: 30 BC-AD 192 Augustan Statesmanship: 30 BC-AD 14 The Golden Age: 30 BC-AD 18 The Other Side of Monarchy: AD 14–96 The Silver Age: AD 14–96 Rome at Work: AD 14–96 Rome and Its Art: 30 BC-AD 96 Epicurean Rome: 30 BC-AD 96 Roman Law: 146 BC-AD 192 The Philosopher Kings: AD 96–180 Life and Thought in the Second Century: AD 96–192 "If Rome had not engulfed so many men of alien blood in so brief a time, if she had passed all these newcomers through her schools instead of her slums, if she had treated them as men with a hundred potential excellences, if she had occasionally closed her gates to let assimilation catch up with infiltration, she might have gained new racial and literary vitality from the infusion, and might have remained a Roman Rome, the voice and citadel of the West." (p. 366) The Empire: AD 146-AD 192 Italy Civilizing the West Roman Greece The Hellenistic Revival Rome and Judea: 132 BC-AD 135 The Youth of Christianity: 4 BC-AD 325 Jesus: 4 BC-AD 30 The Apostles: AD 30–95 The Growth of the Church: AD 96–305 The Collapse of the Empire: AD 193–305 The Triumph of Christianity: AD 306–325 Epilogue "Rome was not destroyed by Christianity, any more than by barbarian invasion; it was an empty shell when Christianity rose to influence and invasion came." (p.667-668)