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Author(s): Gary Forsythe
ISBN(s): 9780520226517, 0520226518
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 2.38 MB
Year: 2005
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0520226518 
ISBN 13: 9780520226517
Author: Gary Forsythe

During the period from Rome’s Stone Age beginnings on the Tiber River to its conquest of the Italian peninsula in 264 B.C., the Romans in large measure developed the social, political, and military structure that would be the foundation of their spectacular imperial success. In this comprehensive and clearly written account, Gary Forsythe draws extensively from historical, archaeological, linguistic, epigraphic, religious, and legal evidence as he traces Rome’s early development within a multicultural environment of Latins, Sabines, Etruscans, Greeks, and Phoenicians. His study charts the development of the classical republican institutions that would eventually enable Rome to create its vast empire, and provides fascinating discussions of topics including Roman prehistory, religion, and language.

In addition to its value as an authoritative synthesis of current research, A Critical History of Early Rome offers a revisionist interpretation of Rome’s early history through its innovative use of ancient sources. The history of this period is notoriously difficult to uncover because there are no extant written records, and because the later historiography that affords the only narrative accounts of Rome’s early days is shaped by the issues, conflicts, and ways of thinking of its own time. This book provides a groundbreaking examination of those surviving ancient sources in light of their underlying biases, thereby reconstructing early Roman history upon a more solid evidentiary foundation.

A Critical History of Early Rome From Prehistory to the First Punic War 1st Table of contents:

1. Italy in Prehistory
The Land and its Linguistic Diversity
Modern Archaeology and Prehistory
Prehistoric Italy
The Ice Man
The Bronze and Iron Ages
Ancient Languages and Modern Archaeology
2. Archaic Italy c. 800–500 B.C.
Phoenicians in the West
Greek Colonization in the West
The Formation of Etruscan Civilization
Phoenicians, Greeks, and Etruscans
Growth and Decline of Etruscan Civilization
The Alphabet
The Archaeology of Early Latium
3. The Ancient Sources for Early Roman History
The Annalistic Tradition
The Antiquarian Tradition
Livy and Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Cicero and Diodorus Siculus
Ancient Documentary Sources
Roman Oral Tradition and Greek Myth
4. Rome During the Regal Period
The Nature of the Evidence
The Site of Rome
The Archaeology of Early Rome
The Ancient Literary Tradition
Archaic Roman Institutions
Rome’s Growth and Expanding Horizons
5. Archaic Roman Religion
Some Important Roman Divinities
The Official Religious Calendar
The Religious Priesthoods
Roman Religious Practices and Ideology
6. The Beginning of the Roman Republic
How Did The Monarchy End?
The Nature and Origin of the Consulship
The Early Consular Fasti
Patricians and Plebeians
Senators, Patricians, and Priests
The Plebeian Tribunate
The Tribal and other Assemblies
Rome and the Latins
Sp. Cassius, the Fabii, and the Cremera
Clan Warfare and the Lapis Satricanus
7. Rome of the Twelve Tables
The Trial of K. Quinctius
Appius Herdonius and Quinctius Cincinnatus
Facts and Fictions of the Plebeian Tribunate
The Decemviral Legislation
Jurisdiction in Early Roman Law
Litigation and Orality in Early Roman Law
Society and Economy
The Second Board of Decemvirs
The Prohibition of Intermarriage
The Second Secession and the Valerian Horatian Laws
8. Evolution and Growth of the Roman State, 444–367 B.C.
The Military Tribunes with Consular Power
The Sedition of Sp. Maelius
The War Against Fidenae
The War Against Veii
The Gallic Catastrophe and Its Aftermath
The Sedition of M. Manlius Capitolinus
The Licinian Sextian Laws
9. Rome’s Rise to Dominance, 366–300 B.C.
The Emergence of the Roman Nobility
Tibur, Gauls, Greeks, and Carthage
The Samnites and the First Samnite War
The Latin War and its Consequences
The Second Samnite War
The Philinus Treaty
Other Significant Changes in the Roman State
Roman Factional Politics
10. Rome’s Conquest and Unification of Italy, 299–264 B.C.
The Third Samnite War
Early Roman Coinage
Military Ethos and Aristocratic Family Tradition
Domestic and Foreign Affairs during the 280s B.C.
The Pyrrhic War
The Roman Organization of Italy
Some Final Assessments

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