The Birth of Rome
Tides of History
The Legend of Rome
The great aristocratic clans of Rome, the Genteis, told and retold stories of what their ancestors had accomplished. When we go back before 509 BC, those genuine duggets of information peter out into legend and myth. Reconstructing the earliest history of Rome means accepting that these stories tell us far more about what highly literate people living in the late Roman Republic and early Empire were concerned with than about the distant past.
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