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• Army: soldiers, total war, praetorians, legions, navy, flag, battle, machines &c.
• Art: general intro, statues, theatre, painting, pottery, music, mosaics, frescos &c.
• Augustus and the empire: empire, augustus, pax romana
• Building and Engineering: architecture, aqueducts, roads, houses, basilica, technology, columns, buildings, bridges, arches, water, domes, techniques
• Circus: Circus Maximus, chariots, games, other circuses. Social significance.
• Class and Social Struggle in ancient Rome: Class, slaves, Senators, Equestrians, Patricians, women, children, plebs, population, family.
• Colosseum: The building, amphitheatres, shows, map
• Constantine and Christianisation: Constantine, Arch of Constantine
• Dress and Clothing: Clothing, Tunic, Togas, Fashion, Costumes, Jewelry, Footwear and shoes, weddings, hair.
• Early Christianity: Christian persecutions, the palaeo-Christians, St. Peter & St. Paul, St. Augustin, the Catacombs, St. Peter's basilica. See also Emperor Constantine.
• Economy of Ancient Rome: money, gold, trade, economy
• Every day life and labour: numbers, a day in the life..., transport, jobs, homes, doctors, animals, light. Also, see clothes, food, schools, social class.
• Fall of the Roman Empire of the West: Fall of Rome, why the fall of Rome? Romulus Augustulus, Society, Holy Roman Empire
• Five Good Emperors: Hadrian, Trajan, Marcus Aurelius
• Food: General food, drink, meals, bread, food of the rich and poor, recipes.
• Forum: about the forums in ancient Rome.
• Games, Sport and Passtimes: Baths, games, toys, entertainment, gambling, sex, prostitution and orgies, plays & theatre.
• The Gladiators: types of gladiators, gladiator training and training schools, Commodus, women gladiators. Weapons, profession and life, history, Spartacus.
• Government and Law: Senate, government, punishment, law & laws, development of Roman law, politics, morality, praetors & other magistrates. Social structure vs Government vs Military power.
• Julio Claudian Dynasty: Nero, Caligula, Caesars, Claudius, Tiberius, Vespasian
• Julius Caesar and End of the Republic: Cleopatra, Julius Caesar's life, biography and death, Shakespeare (a must really), Omens, Timeline, Caesar's women
• Literature: Virgil, Aenid, Livy, Plutarch, Tacitus, Poetry
• Maps: ancient Rome, The empire and bits thereof, Pompeii, Tiber, Colosseum, Hadrian's wall, Julius Caesar's battles, Republic, empire under Augustus and Hadrian. Ostia, Forum.
• Origins of Rome: Romulus and Remus, Aeneas, Etruscans, Latium, Gods, Sabines, Rhea Silvia, the She Wolf.
• Other Emperors: General list and brief notes, Justinian, Valerian, Charlemagne (can't miss him out although he wasn't really a "proper" Emperor of ancient Rome), the raunchy Elagabalus, Galba, Commodus.
• The Pantheon: General description, images, Architecture and construction techniques, various uses, mystical purpose of.
• Pompeii
• Religion: Gods and Goddesses also including Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Hercules, Janus, Asclepius, Isis, moon, sun, planetary gods, religious festivities & rites, calendar, marriage, Vestal Virgins, earth, temples, love, Diana, Aurora, Juno, Quirinus, Pantheon, Death and Funerals.
• Republic and Social Struggle: The republic, Scaevola the left handed, The Gracchi-revolutionary forefathers.
• Republic in Crisis: Marius, Sulla, Julius Caesar (see Caesar section).
• Roman Britain: Hadrian's wall, Claudius, Daily life, England and Europe, antique map of Roman britain.
• Roman Coins: Julius Caesar, the development of Roman coins, manufacture, antique print of Roman coins, names, value.
• Roman Weapons: General description, swords, shields, armor, spear, training.
• Romanticism: This section is tied together with the later history of Rome, including The Middle ages & Medieval Rome, Renaissance Rome, Baroque Rome, The reformation and counter reformation, The Holy inquisition and other bits and bobs which came after ancient Rome.
• Rome City: weather, Tiber river, Geography, Pictures & maps, population
• Schools: Schools and learning in ancient Rome. Education and higher education. Libraries in ancient Rome.
• Seven Kings of Rome: See section on origins but each King deserves a particular mention. The Etruscan Tarquins, Priscus, Horatii, Alba Longa, Tarquinius Superbus &c.
• Shopping in Ancient Rome: They too had traffic in the centre of town and loads of shops in the forum and streets. Retail therapy wasn't a modern invention!
• St. Peter's basilica: Was started during antiquity. Built over a Circus - one of the various places where St. Peter was supposed to have been crucified in Rome. The square, the tomb and Popes.
• The Vestal Virgins: origins, duties, their temple and home.

There is also...

• A"Generic" category - to cover anything which didn't quite fit in the preceding headings! Includes things like ancient Roman numbers, writing, names, quotes etc.
• Other materials include images, lists of popes and emperors, an extensive Timeline with events, rulers of the city, art etc.