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1. 1. The Beginnings Of Rome

   Italy and Rome from the Bronze Age to the Punic Wars

   

   A careful reassessment of Rome’s earliest centuries that combines close reading of later literary traditions with archaeological and epigraphic evidence to distinguish legend from plausible history; it traces how scattered settlements coalesced into an urban center in the eighth–seventh centuries BCE, examines the development of kingship, social hierarchies, religious practice and political institutions under Etruscan, Latin and Italic influences, evaluates the reliability and construction of surviving annalistic narratives, and reconstructs the chronology and socio-economic processes behind urbanization and the eventual transition from monarchy to republic.

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