Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Frank Kolb. — Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1977. — XIX, 604 S., 24 Tafelseiten und 1 Karte als Anhang. The book is a translation into German of the author's improved and expanded monograph Early Rome and the Latins (= Jerome Lectures, 7). University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 1965. Andreas Alföldi (1895-1981) was a...
Heidelberg: Winter, 1974. — 226 S. — (Bibliothek der klassischen Altertumswissenschaften. Neue Folge, Reihe 1, Bd. 5). An interesting study of Rome's earliest society and its rituals and institutes in comparative perspective.
Oxford University Press, 2001. — 352 p. How should we understand how the regions of Italy were affected by Roman imperialism? This book, which is the first full-scale treatment of ancient Umbria in any language, takes a balanced view of the region's history in the first millennium BC, focusing on local actions and motivations as much as the effect of outside influences and...
Edinburgh University Press, 2020. — 432 p. A new view of early Rome as a highly mobile society within a wider interconnected Mediterranean network. Covers the rise of Rome from small-scale community to supremacy in central Italy. Uses the latest archaeological evidence to demonstrate the sophisticated and cosmopolitan nature of early Rome. Analyzes the origins of Rome's...
Princeton University Press, 2011. — 184 p. Andrea Carandini's archaeological discoveries and controversial theories about ancient Rome have made international headlines over the past few decades. In this book, he presents his most important findings and ideas, including the argument that there really was a Romulus - a first king of Rome - who founded the city in the mid-eighth...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 466 p. In this book, Gabriele Cifani reconstructs the early economic history of Rome, from the Iron Age to the early Republic. Bringing a multidisciplinary approach to the topic, he argues that the early Roman economy was more diversified than has been previously acknowledged, going well beyond agriculture and pastoralism. Cifani bases his...
Routledge, 1995. — 507 p. The beginnings of Rome, once thought to be lost in the mists of legend, are now being revealed by an ever-increasing body of archaeological evidence, much of it unearthed during the past twenty-five years. This new material has made it possible to trace the development of Rome from an iron-age village to a major state which eventually outstripped its...
London: Routledge, 1995. — XX, 507 p. The beginnings of Rome, once thought to be lost in the mists of legend, are now being revealed by an ever-increasing body of archaeological evidence, much of it unearthed during the past twenty-five years. This new material has made it possible to trace the development of Rome from an iron-age village to a major state which eventually...
Belles Lettres, 2020. — 495 p. Que peut-on savoir des premières guerres de Rome? Quelle a été la portée des défaites romaines au sein de ces conflits militaires, qui ont tous été réécrits postérieurement comme des victoires indubitables de Rome? Assurément, l’histoire des plus anciennes guerres romaines n’est connue qu’à travers des récits écrits plusieurs siècles après les...
Berkeley ; Los Angeles ; London: University of California Press, 2005. — 421 p. — ISBN 0–520–22651–8. This book narrates the early history of Rome, one of the most successful imperial powers of world history. Although the story told here ends with the subjugation of Italy and thus does not treat the great wars of overseas conquest, during Rome’s advancement from a small town on...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 350 p. The trajectory of Rome from a small village in Latium Vetus, to an emerging power in Italy during the first millennium BC, and finally, the heart of an Empire that sprawled throughout the Mediterranean and much of Europe until the 5th century CE, is well-known. Its rise is often presented as inevitable and unstoppable. Yet the factors...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — xx+411 p. This book focuses on urbanization and state formation in middle Tyrrhenian Italy during the first millennium BC by analyzing settlement organization and territorial patterns in Rome and Latium vetus from the Bronze Age to the Archaic Era. In contrast with the traditional diffusionist view, which holds that the idea of the city was...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969. — XXVI, 278 p., plates (Princeton Monographs in Art and Archaeology 40). The legend of Aeneas as preserved in the art and artifacts of antiquity is the focus of this study. Gallant warrior, accomplice in the abduction of Helen, fugitive from burning Troy, and founder of Rome-in all his roles, Aeneas appears in ancient sculpture and...
Cornell University Press, 1997. — 256 p. At once a historical essay and a self-conscious meditation on the writing of history, The Foundation of Rome takes as its starting point a series of accounts of Rome's origins offered over centuries. Alexandre Grandazzi places these accounts in their contemporary contexts and shows how the growing sophistication in methodology gradually...
Hannover: Hahn sche Hofbuchhandlung, 1863. — 181 S. Ob die von Servius Tullius angeordnete Eintheilung der Stadt Rom in vier Theile und des romischen Gebietes in sechs und zwanzig Theile wirklich der Ursprung der nahherigen Tribus urbanae und rusticae gewesen, wie dem Dionys von Halikarnass folgend Wachsmuth, Niebuhr, Gottling,Walter,Becker und A. behaupten.
Pen and Sword History, 2020. — 288 p. According to legend, Romulus was born to a Vestal Virgin and left for dead as an infant near the Tiber River. His life nearly ended as quickly as it began, but fate had other plans. A humble shepherd rescued the child and helped raise him into manhood. As Romulus grew older, he fearlessly engaged in a series of perilous adventures that...
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018. — 432 p. By the third century BC, the once-modest settlement of Rome had conquered most of Italy and was poised to build an empire throughout the Mediterranean basin. What transformed a humble city into the preeminent power of the region? In The Rise of Rome , the historian and archaeologist Kathryn Lomas reconstructs the...
The University of Michigan Press, 2011. — 206 p. This book contains a new approach of the history of Roman monarchy and republic, from the foundation of the city to the year of 264 B.C. To 509 BC Conservative. Tolerant. Aggressive. Practical. From 509 to 264 BC Conservative (continued). Tolerant (continued). Aggressive (continued). Practical (continued). Wrap-up.
Yale University Press, 2012. — 237 p. With commanding skill, Thomas R. Martin tells the remarkable and dramatic story of how a tiny, poor, and threatened settlement grew to become, during its height, the dominant power in the Mediterranean world for five hundred years. Encompassing the period from Rome's founding in the eighth century B.C. through Justinian's rule in the sixth...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2017. — 336 p. The scholarly community has become increasingly aware of the differences between Roman myths and the more familiar myths of Greece. Early Rome: Myth and Society steps in to provide much-needed modern and accessible translations and commentaries on Italian legends. This work examines the tales of Roman pre- and legendary history, discusses...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2017. — 336 p. The scholarly community has become increasingly aware of the differences between Roman myths and the more familiar myths of Greece. Early Rome: Myth and Society steps in to provide much-needed modern and accessible translations and commentaries on Italian legends. This work examines the tales of Roman pre-and legendary history, discusses relevant...
Fontana Press, 1976. — 192 p. This book is well-researched, pleasantly written, and I've learned a great deal about the beginnings of the Roman Republic and the impact and influence of the Etruscans on the building of that culture.
Abingdon – New York: Routledge, 2014 =1984.-X, 206 p. -(Routledge Revivals). Defining 'Italic History'. Origins. The Flowering of Italy in the Archaic Period (Eighth to Fifth Centuries BC). The Age of Crisis (Fifth to Fourth Centuries BC). Roman Unification and Italic Continuity.
Bruxelles: Académie Royale de Belgique, 2000. — 517 p. Ce livre sur les Rois de Rome est une mise au point sur la méthode qu'il convient de suivre pour utiliser les informations livrées par les historiens antiques de Rome et donc pour comprendre les épisodes des périodes les plus archaïques. Car les progrès accomplis récemment par l'archéologie italienne et les découvertes...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. — xxii + 232 p. Carolynn E. Roncaglia's Northern Italy in the Roman World analyzes the effect of the Roman Empire on northern Italy, tracing the evolution of the region from the Bronze Age to the Gothic wars. A wealthy and strategically important region, northern Italy presents an interesting case study for examining the influence of the...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 1997. Die hier zum ersten Mal breit ausgeführte Gesamtanalyse der einschlägigen antiken Texte zu den römischen Urkönigen führt zu einem völlig neuen Bild der Traditionszusammenhänge und räumt zahlreiche ältere und jüngere Mißverständnisse aus. Die Geschichte von der Regierung der Urkönige Janus und Saturn hat erst in der Aeneis ihren Ursprung. Der...
Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2008. — X, 366 p. In Unwritten Rome, T.P. Wiseman continues to rethink the history of Rome and Roman literature. He presents us with an imaginative and appealing picture of the early society of pre-literary Rome — as a free and uninhibited world in which the arts and popular entertainments flourished. His original angle allows the voice of...
Cambridge University Press, 1995. — 243 p. This is an account of the foundation legend of Rome, how the twins Remus and Romulus were miraculously suckled by a she-wolf, and how Romulus founded Rome and Remus was killed at the moment of the foundation. What does the story mean? Why have a twin, if he has to be killed off? This is the first historical analysis of the origins and...
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