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The Birth of Rome

Tides of History

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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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