Early Rome to 290 BC : the beginnings of the city and the rise of the Republic / Guy Bradley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bradley, Guy Jolyon, author.

Series:

The Edinburgh History of Ancient Rome : EHAR

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rome-History-To 510 B.C.

Rome--History--To 510 B.C.

Rome.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 412 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]

Summary:

A new view of early Rome as a highly mobile society within a wider interconnected Mediterranean networkCovers the rise of Rome from small scale community to supremacy in central ItalyUses the latest archaeological evidence to demonstrate the sophisticated and cosmopolitan nature of early RomeAnalyses the origins of Rome's Republican form of government and of its aggressive drive to conquerIn the first few centuries of its existence, Rome developed from a minor settlement on the Tiber into the most powerful city-state in Italy.Guy Bradley examines the reasons for Rome's emergence and success within a highly competitive Italian environment, and how much it owed to its neighbours. He explains how many of Rome's key characteristics, such as its powerful ruling elite, its stable political institutions, its openness to outsiders, and its intensely militaristic society, were shaped by their origins in the monarchy and early Republic.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Preface and acknowledgements

Series editor’s preface

Abbreviations

1. Sources and approaches

2. Early Italy, from the Bronze Age to the classical era

3. Myths and legends of the foundation of Rome

4. Kingship

5. Urbanism and city foundation

6. Economy and society in archaic Rome and central Italy

7. Rome in the early Republic

8. Rom an foreign relations in the sixth, fi fth and fourth centuries bc

9. Rome and Italy 338–290 bc: conquest and accommodation

10. Rome around 300 bc

11. Conclusion

Chronology

Guide to further reading

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-7486-2934-3

OCLC:

1301546799