Early Rome to 290 BC
The Beginnings of the City and the Rise of the Republic
1st Edition
Published on 21. September 2020
432 pages
978-0-7486-2934-3 (ISBN)
Description
A new view of early Rome as a highly mobile society within a wider interconnected Mediterranean networkCovers the rise of Rome from small scale community to supremacy in central ItalyUses the latest archaeological evidence to demonstrate the sophisticated and cosmopolitan nature of early RomeAnalyses the origins of Rome's Republican form of government and of its aggressive drive to conquerIn the first few centuries of its existence, Rome developed from a minor settlement on the Tiber into the most powerful city-state in Italy. Guy Bradley examines the reasons for Rome's emergence and success within a highly competitive Italian environment, and how much it owed to its neighbours. He explains how many of Rome's key characteristics, such as its powerful ruling elite, its stable political institutions, its openness to outsiders, and its intensely militaristic society, were shaped by their origins in the monarchy and early Republic.
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Content
- Intro
- Illustrations
- Preface and acknowledgements
- Series editor's preface
- Abbreviations
- 1. Sources and approaches
- 2. Early Italy, from the Bronze Age to the classical era
- 3. Myths and legends of the foundation of Rome
- 4. Kingship
- 5. Urbanism and city foundation
- 6. Economy and society in archaic Rome and central Italy
- 7. Rome in the early Republic
- 8. Roman foreign relations in the sixth, fifth and fourth centuries bc
- 9. Rome and Italy 338-290 bc: conquest and accommodation
- 10. Rome around 300 bc
- 11. Conclusion
- Chronology
- Guide to further reading
- Bibliography
- Index
