A critical history of early Rome : from prehistory to the first Punic War / / Gary Forsythe

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910811161903321
• Autore: Forsythe Gary
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2005
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvi, 400 pages) : illustrations, maps
• Disciplina: 937
• Soggetti: Rome History To 510 B.C; Rome History Republic, 510-265 B.C
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliography and index.
• Nota di contenuto: CONTENTS; LIST OF TABLES AND ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; DEDICATION; ABBREVIATIONS; FOREWORD; 1. Italy in Prehistory; The Land and its Linguistic Diversity; Modern Archaeology and Prehistory; Prehistoric Italy; The Ice Man; The Bronze and Iron Ages; Ancient Languages and Modern Archaeology; 2. Archaic Italy c. 800-500 B.C.; Phoenicians in the West; Greek Colonization in the West; The Formation of Etruscan Civilization; Phoenicians, Greeks, and Etruscans; Growth and Decline of Etruscan Civilization; The Alphabet; The Archaeology of Early Latium; 3. The Ancient Sources for Early Roman History; The Annalistic Tradition; The Antiquarian Tradition; Livy and Dionysius of Halicarnassus; Cicero and Diodorus Siculus; Ancient Documentary Sources; Roman Oral Tradition and Greek Myth; 4. Rome During the Regal Period; The Nature of the Evidence; The Site of Rome; The Archaeology of Early Rome; The Ancient Literary Tradition; Archaic Roman Institutions; Rome's Growth and Expanding Horizons; 5. Archaic Roman Religion; Some Important Roman Divinities; The Official Religious Calendar; The Religious Priesthoods; Roman Religious Practices and Ideology; 6. The Beginning of the Roman Republic; How Did The Monarchy End?; The Nature and Origin of the Consulship; The Early Consular Fasti; Patricians and Plebeians; Senators, Patricians, and Priests; The Plebeian Tribunate; The Tribal and Other Assemblies; Rome and the Latins; Sp. ; Cassius, the Fabii, and the Cremera; Clan Warfare and the Lapis Satricanus; 7. Rome of the Twelve Tables; The Trial of K. Quinctius; Appius Herdonius and Quinctius Cincinnatus; Facts and Fictions of the Plebeian Tribunate; The Decemviral Legislation; Jurisdiction in Early Roman Law; Litigation and Orality in Early Roman Law; Society and Economy; The Second Board of Decemvirs; The Prohibition of Intermarriage; The Second Secession and the Valerian Horatian Laws; 8. Evolution and Growth of the Roman State, 444-367 B.C.; The Military Tribunes with Consular Power; The Sedition of Sp. Maelius; The War Against Fidenae; The War Against Veii; The Gallic Catastrophe and Its Aftermath; The Sedition of M. Manlius Capitolinus; The Licinian Sextian Laws; 9. Rome's Rise to Dominance, 366-300 B.C.; The Emergence of the Roman Nobility; Tibur, Gauls, Greeks, and Carthage; The Samnites and the First Samnite War; The Latin War and its Consequences; The Second Samnite War; The Philinus Treaty; Other Significant Changes in the Roman State; Roman Factional Politics; 10. Rome's Conquest and Unification of Italy, 299-264 B.C.; The Third Samnite War; Early Roman Coinage; Military Ethos and Aristocratic Family Tradition; Domestic and Foreign Affairs during the 280s B.C.; The Pyrrhic War; The Roman Organization of Italy; Some Final Assessments; APPENDIX: EARLY ROMAN CHRONOLOGY; WORKS CITED; INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: During the period from Rome's Stone Age beginnings on the Tiber River to its conquest of the Italian peninsula in 264 B.C., the Romans in large measure developed the social, political, and military structure that would be the foundation of their spectacular imperial success. In this comprehensive and clearly written account, Gary Forsythe draws extensively from historical, archaeological, linguistic, epigraphic, religious, and legal evidence as he traces Rome's early development within a multicultural environment of Latins, Sabines, Etruscans, Greeks, and Phoenicians.