The Origins of Rome
The Ancients
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Centuries of Rome
cent numero is a fascinating king his second king of rome said to rule for about 35 years he came from sebenum from the sabbines in the heartland of the peninsula. He's an outsider and all of the kings that come after him follow that pattern of being outsiders. The main dates are probably problematic late eighth to early seventh century it's a suspiciously long period of time they're almost certainly were moorings than the seven canonical ones recorded in our sources so matching up the archaeology precisely to say a particular figure like numero is pretty difficult.
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